Gujarat govt. announces expansion of e-stamping facility

Gandhinagar: Gujarat govt has announced expansion of e-stamping facility. As per a statement issued by Revenue minister Kaushik Patel today, licensee stamp vendors, charter accountants, company secretaries, common service centres and notary offices will be authorized to offer e-stamping facility. At present e-stamping is available at only 474 places only across Gujarat due to e-stamping rules – 2014 provision that only schedule bank, government controlled units, post offices and sub registrar offices can offer e-stamping facility centre.

Patel said, the fresh decision will pave a way to start e-stamping facility at 25 nationalized and private banks, 90 cooperative banks covering all of their branches, 1259 stamp vendors, 5500 company secretaries, 11500 chartered accountants, 3000 notary license holders, 185 non banking finance companies and 20,000 CSC centres.

Patel said e-stamping facility is connected to Garvi system which prevents cheating or irregularity. Broadened availability of e-stamping will prevent people from black marketing and cheating.

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