{"id":15472,"date":"2013-12-26T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T05:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15472"},"modified":"2013-12-26T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T05:34:44","slug":"government-to-accept-sms-as-official-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/government-to-accept-sms-as-official-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to accept SMS as official document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, people will be able to use SMS as valid official document while using e-governance services with various government departments, for making payments, registrations and various other schemes. This decision comes months after <a title=\"IRCTC to introduce SMS-based rail ticketing from July\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/irctc-to-introduce-sms-based-rail-ticketing-from-july\/\" target=\"_blank\">IRCTC started accepting ticket booking SMSes<\/a> as official travel document allowing passengers for train journey.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"How to file RTI Online?\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/how-to-file-rti-online\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learn\u00a0How to file RTI Online?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Soon, apply for passport through your smartphone\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/apply-for-passport-through-smartphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soon, apply for passport through your smartphone<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Called as Mobile Seva Service, various services including Right to Information (RTI), health, Aadhaar and education, will come under the initiative.\u00a0 The government has already completed pilots with around 100 departments.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, digitally signed certificates are accepted as valid document but a similar rule has to be made for mobile phone users where SMS available on mobile phone can be accepted as valid proof. Department of Electronics and IT (DEITY) is ready with digital signature for mobile phones which the government can use in messages that are to be sent to the citizens applying for a service. Digital signatures will be allocated to all government departments on board in first quarter of 2014. Government departments can send communication on mobile phones of citizen seeking service.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"M-Governance Kerala \u2013 Official android app for M-governance\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/m-governance-kerala-official-android-app-for-m-governance\/\" target=\"_blank\">M-Governance Kerala \u2013 Official android app for M-governance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Kerala implements m-governance in 90 government departments\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/kerala-implements-m-governance-in-90-government-departments\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kerala implements m-governance in 90 government departments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Government also plans to upgrade all their applications to HTML5 standard which will make them compatible with all mobile platforms. At present, most of the mobile applications work on Android mobile phones and Java-enabled phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, people will be able to use SMS as valid official document while using e-governance services with various government departments, for making payments, registrations and various other schemes. This decision comes months after IRCTC started accepting ticket booking SMSes as official travel document allowing passengers for train journey. Learn\u00a0How to file RTI Online? Soon, apply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-15472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-kerala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472"}],"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=15472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}