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The Dollar Business Bureau  Mobile payments network MobiKwik has partnered with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to launch e-cash payments for tatkal bookings. "MobiKwik collaborated with Indian Railways to digitise payments on the IRCTC app and IRCTC FoodOnTrack app this year, and now we are powering payments for tatkal online that will help users book tickets almost instantly," MobiKwik co-founder Upasana Taku said in press release today.  MobiKwik said instantaneous e-cash payments will help tatkal online in managing the load of over a thousand ticket bookings per minute. The service will also help users in ensuring that their bookings do not get rejected due to payment delays.  On an average, over 15% daily ticket bookings for Indian Railways happen under tatkal, ...

Source: PTI Google has announced plans to make internet accessible to one crore passengers at 100 busiest railway stations in India by the end of next year and will later expand it to 300 other stations, making it one of the largest public Wi-Fi projects in the world. “I'm very proud to announce that it's the train stations of India that are going to help get millions of people online. In the past year, 100 million people in India started using the internet for the first time,” Google's India-born CEO Sunder Pichai said in a blog post on Sunday after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This means there are now more internet users in India than in every country in ...

 The Dollar Business Bureau In view of the increasing quantum of public expenditure, the Government of India is moving towards establishment of ‘Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMS)’, besides setting up proper standards in accounting, auditing and budgeting. This was stated by Pranab Mukherjee, President of India, in his address to the probationers of Indian Defence, Civil, Railway and Post & Telecommunication Finance & Accounts Services, in Rashtrapati Bhavan, on Monday. Tthe President called upon the probationers to assimilate the global financial management practices and apply them appropriately in the Indian context. Stating that the Public Financial Management System (PFMS) is a key to good governance, the President called for an efficient tracking, monitoring and reporting system for proper management of public ...