Paperless tradeeTrade in India Presentation for International conference on advancing publicprivate

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Paperless trade(eTrade) in IndiaPresentation
for International conference on advancing
public-private partnerships for e-business
standards18-19 Sep. 2008T. A. KhanDeputy
Director General,NIC takhan_at_nic.in
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Outline

• Introduction
• 2. eTrade Initiatives
• 3. eTrade - The Project
• 4. Use of Standards
• 5. Achievements and Task Ahead

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1. Introduction
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1.1 Department of Commerce

• Deals with the countrys external trade and all
  matters connected with it.
• Formulates policies in the sphere of foreign
  trade.
• Exports of merchandise goods
• (1995-96) - 31.8 billion
• (2007-08) - 159 billion

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1.2 Need for Paperless Trade

• Substantial progress on policy front.
• Focus required on streamlining and
  standardisation of procedures.
• Large number of agencies involved in clearances
  for international trade.
• Increase in exports to eTrade enabled
  countries.

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1.3 Challenges

• Multiple entry/exit points and complex management
  issues
• Cumbersome procedures
• Enormous documentation
• Need for extensive process re-engineering
• Different stages of automation
• . Contd.

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Challenges

• Different priorities of organisations
• Lack of awareness on eTrade
• Non participation in community systems
• Adoption of standards

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• 2. eTrade Initiatives

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2.1 eGovernance Initiatives

• On 14 June 2000 Minimum agenda for e-Governance
  developed.
• GOI approves the National E-Governance Action
  Plan for implementation during the year 2003-2007
• Mission Mode Projects at the center, state and
  integrated service levels to create a
  citizen-centric and business-centric environment
  for governance included.
• ... Contd.

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eGovernance Initiatives

• Electronic Government Procurement as a mission
  mode project with broad objectives
• Introduce procurement policy reforms
• Improve efficiency of procurement (time and cost)
• Standardization, streamlining and automation of
  the procurement processes
• Create a conducive legal framework
• Create a procurement framework, which is workflow
  based, easy to operate, seamless and leading to
  paperless process management
• Provide equal opportunity to all vendors
  eliminating areas of discretion
• Implement standard procurement processes using
  generic procurement platform(s)
• To ensure adoption of adequate security measures
  (audit trail, authentication, integrity,
  non-repudiation, secrecy etc.) practices in
  e-procurement transaction
• Undertake a comprehensive capacity building
  program across the government organizations
• Publication of procurement information mandatory
  (notices, Tenders, Contracts/Orders etc.) on
  government procurement portals
• e-Procurement mandatory above a decided threshold
  value (Rs. 25 Lacs in GoI)
• Development of a generic e-Procurement solution
  by NIC for wide adoption by any Government
  department/organization

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2.2 Strategies

• Department of Commerce selected as the nodal
  agency
• Process Re-engineering
• National standards
• Education and awareness programs
• Pilot projects for private sector
• eTrade project
• Portal for single point interface with all
  community partners

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3. eTrade - the project
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3.1 Objective of the project

• Efficient, transparent, secure electronic
  delivery of services by trade regulatory/facilitat
  ing agencies.
• Simplify procedures and reduce the transaction
  cost and time.
• Introduce international standards and best
  practices

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3.2 The Indian eTrade Community
Customs/Central Excise
DGFT
Airlines
Banks
Shipping Agents
RBI
Port/CONCOR
Message Interchange
DGCIS
Importers/Exporters
AEPC/Texprocil
(Income Tax, ECGC, EXIM Bank, EIC, APEDA, MPEDA,
State/local authorities)
Indian Railways
ICD/CFS
CHAs
AAI
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3.3 Project Spread

• Customs (35 locations)
• DGFT (35 locations)
• Port Trusts (13 locations)
• Airports (8 locations)
• Container Corporation (38 locations)
• Banks (106 locations)
• RBI
• Airlines
• Indian Railways (1)
• Export Promotion Organisations
• DG commercial Intelligence / Statistics
• Inland Container Depots / Container Freight
  Stations (50)

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Customs
ICENET
DB link SQL net
LRMS Transaction Risk Processing
Other Small Apps viz. in Chennai
NRMS National Risk Control
Institutional User EG. DGFT
FTP over LAN
ICENET
Customs Officer On LAN
DB link SQL net
Updation Server Kandla server for directory
updation
ICES Core Transaction Processing
FTP
Service Centre Server for hosting the Application
ICENET
Internet
Multiple Protocols
FTP over WAN
MES Message Exchange with Banks Custodians
ICEGATE EDI messaging and Web Services
File upload HTTP/ SMTP
FTP over LAN
Banks Ports
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Directorate General of Foreign Trade
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Sea Ports
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CONCOR



Client Pcs
Bank Servers


E-Token
Digital Certificate



Firewall







ONCOR

CONCOR Web Server

Database Server





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Airports
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Banks
RBI
RTGS
Bank B
Bank N
Bank A
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Exporters/Importers/agents









Airports
Customs
Ports
CONCOR
DGFT




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• 4. Use of Standards

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• 1988 Adoption of Aligned Documentation
  System based on UN Layout key in
• 1991 SW for pre-shipment export documents
  based on UN Layout key.
• The migration to United Nations Electronic
  Trade
• Documents.

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• 1996 EDIFACT declared as national standard for
  EDI.
• Message development groups constituted for
  Customs, Ports, Airports, Banking and Private
  sector
• 1995 Establishment of Article Numbering Bar
  Coding Institution (GS1).
• 1998 SubCommittee on UN/LOCODE constituted.
• Adoption of international codes
• Adoption of CCTS

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5. Achievements and Task Ahead
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5.1 Achievements

• Uniformity and simplification of procedures
• Re-engineered inter agency interfaces
• Standards integration
• Integration of eTrade community through a portal
• Significant reduction in transaction time of
  services like
• license application is disposed in 6 hrs. as
  compare to 45
• days
• Reduction and early detection of frauds

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5.2 Task Ahead

• Dispensation of manual systems.
• Smaller locations to be covered.
• Cross border paperless trading to be
  incorporated.
• e.g.
• Electronic certificate of origin project
• Customs declaration

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