Govt of Kerala : Akshaya e-pay

The website of Kerala's computerized bill payment facility (e-kendra.org)

proudly displays the fact that the initiative has earned a total of Rs. 62

Crores, with an average of Rs. 3.1 Crores a month from 88,000 transactions. In

other words, citizens of Kerala have paid 88,000 bills at 'Akshaya Centers',

one-stop bill payment shops spread across all the 14 districts of the state.

Aimed at giving citizens — rural and urban, the option of making payments at

their convenience, and not having to go individually to the offices of various

civic services, and to bring the bill counters closer to the people, Akshaya

e-pay, in each center is headed by an Akshaya entrepreneur and every month, a

list of top transacting centers along with the name of the entrepreneur who

heads it, is displayed on the website. There are 801 Akshaya e-pay centres

situated across Kerala. With the roll out of e-pay in Wayanad, Palakkad,

Alappuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram in March 2009, the project has

made its presence felt in all the districts of Kerala. e-pay is an online system

for collecting various utility bills from the citizens. This platform provides

facility to remit electricity charges, BSNL telephone bills (landline & mobile),

Kerala Water Authority bills and fees and charges of Calicut University through

e-pay counters. With an investment of Rs. 57.4 lakhs, which includes two IBM X

Series servers, powered by Windows Server 2.3, Visual Studio .NET, and SQL

Server, the project has been carried out by Center for Development of Imaging

Technology (C-DIT), based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Currently, water

charges, electricity bills, BSNL fixed line and mobile bills and University fees

can be paid at Akshaya e-pay centers and in the weeks to come, RTO fees, Civil

Supplies, and Revenue-based payments would be made available for payments by

citizens.