SHILLONG: As part of the state government's drive towards migrating government transactions to the digital mode, the state finance department signed two MoUs on Monday with the State Bank of India for SBIePay and SBI CMP facilities at the main secretariat building.The state government has already established a new treasury, called Cyber Treasury , which dedicatedly handles all online transactions of government receipts across the state for a few selected departments as of now."The Government now would be escalating all its transactions for collection of tax and non-tax revenue through the online system known as Government Receipt Accounting System (GRAS) covering all the departments in a phased manner. GRAS is being implemented in coordination with NIC, Shillong," said Sanjay Goyal, secretary of finance."This facility would be available on a 24/7 basis through the gateway provided by SBIePay under the MoU. Any citizen can make government payments using credit card, debit card, online banking or mobile banking of any bank without visiting any bank. The SBI CMP will help Government of Meghalaya for make its payment online and reduce paperwork and manual reconciliation of government transactions," Goyal added.With implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on the anvil, these MoUs are expected to give the dealers and other citizens the desired platform for conducting financial transactions with the state government on a digital platform. The agreement was signed by Sanjay Goyal and Rajeev Arora, DGM (B&O) SBI, Zonal Office, Shillong in the presence of Y Tshering, chief secretary to the government of Meghalaya, RV Suchiang, principal secretary, finance department, Digmanu Gupta, general manager, SBI, local head office, Guwahati and GN Despande DGM, SBI, local head office, Guwahati.

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