Bangladesh Bank (BB) is working on introducing online Treasury Chalan Submission and Verification System in June this year.

A senior BB official told BSS that they are implementing a central bank strengthening project with assistance from the World Bank (WB), under which an e-payment gateway will also be introduced in six months time.

Finance Division of the Ministry of Finance and Access to Information (A2I) Programme of Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) are also working to implement the programme to solve the problem related to the existing manual procedure of submitting the Chalan.

“The e-payment gateway will facilitate all types of online payment including the payments through the Treasury Chalan,” BB Executive Director M Abdul Hamid said.

People require paying taxes or fees to the Treasury through Chalan (a prescribed form) for getting various services from the government. The current process of submitting the Chalan is seen cumbersome, time consuming and prone to malpractices.

The Daily Sun/Bangladesh/ 15th Jan 2012