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January 2019 Issue

In his address Dr. Amit Mitra, Hon’ble Minister focussed on the developments in West Bengal. He said “we have
revolutionised the service of e-taxation” and for which the Government of India gave the highest award. As the
Integrated Financial Management System is implemented, not a single rupee is spent in the state of West Bengal by
cash. The treasury is entirely digital. Government of India gave the highest award for the Integrated Financial
Management System.

He referred to the e-district program. It was ambitioned
that a single platform will provide all government services
to the citizens. E-district program is functional throughout
the state and it provides about 85 crucial services to more
than 40 lakh applicants such as giving Income Certificate,
Residential Certificate, Domicile Certificate, Mutation of
Property, Property Tax Payment etcetera. Lands are
digitally mutated and ownership is clear. 50 departments
have switched to e-office and the advantage of e-office is
that it is completely transparent. This is also a
revolutionary change.
Dr. Amit Mitra, Hon’ble Minister delivering speech

Dr. Mitra referred to many other small things that had not attracted notice like the RFID based Taxi Management
System started with Howrah station and now extended to Sealdah station. The Traffic Fine Management System is also
became transparent with introduction of camera. The West Bengal State Wide Area Network is a protected WAN which
connects almost all government offices. But AI is dangerous and must be regulated.

The first day witnessed a panel discussion on ‘Impact of Artificial Intelligence in BFSI segment which was chaired by
Shri Harish Agarwal, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP. The session hosted distinguished panellists like, Shri Aninda Chatterjee,
Managing Director, WBEIDCL; Shri Upkar Singh, Director, IT, FIS Global and Shri Faheem Tanveer Ahmed, MD & CEO,
Crossways IT LTD and Convenor, BASIS IT Services Forum for 2018-19, Bangladesh.

Shri Aninda Chatterjee, MD, Webel referred to the history
of industrial transition and said that earlier also many
countries feared and opposed computerisation. Presently
the level of literacy is high across the globe and all have
easy access to information. The normal reaction of
opposing that used to happen historically is not likely to
happen when confronted with the next disruption of
industry. Industry 4.0 or the Artificial Intelligence.

 Shri Aninda Chatterjee, MD, Webel sharing his views

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