{"id":13528,"date":"2013-09-06T13:32:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13528"},"modified":"2013-09-06T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T08:02:25","slug":"e-payment-gateway-launched-pay-bills-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/e-payment-gateway-launched-pay-bills-online\/","title":{"rendered":"e-Payment gateway launched, Pay bills online!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now you can pay utility bills and access government department services at the comfort of your home. As part of its efforts to cut delay and improve efficiency, the state government has launched the &#8220;<strong>e-payment gateway<\/strong>&#8221; system enabling people to pay various utility bills and access government services online.<\/p>\n<p>The service could be used by any citizen having access to the internet. The service is also available at all <strong>Akshaya e-centres<\/strong> of the government which would act as decentralised information hubs and service delivery points. The e-payment gateway aims to bring all collections to a common platform.<\/p>\n<p>Utility bills of Kerala Water Authority, Kerala State Electricity Board, BSNL and even University fees could be done through the e-payment gateway using credit and debit cards of <strong>66 banks<\/strong> identified for the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>A total of <strong>23 revenue service<\/strong>s which are currently available online as part of the e-district project can now be accessed through the e-payment gateway. The new service also extends to motor vehicles department and local self-governments. Nearly 20 categories of fee, such as learner\u2019s licence, renewal of vehicle registration, road tax, issue of duplicate registration certificate, change of ownership, change of address etc can be made online.<\/p>\n<p>More services would be added to the system from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>To pay fee for a government service or utility bill, <strong>log onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-kendra.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">e-Kendra.org\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you can pay utility bills and access government department services at the comfort of your home. As part of its efforts to cut delay and improve efficiency, the state government has launched the &#8220;e-payment gateway&#8221; system enabling people to pay various utility bills and access government services online. The service could be used by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}