Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Company??? ;-) Cheers, RAH ------- <http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG5_sub.asp?newscode=92273&catcode=ENG5&subcatcode=> deepikaglobal.com - Business News Detail Thursday, February 10, 2005 Good Evening to you Business News GNFC launches nationwide Digital Certification services Mumbai, Feb 9 (UNI) Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Company (GNFC) promoted (n)Code Solutions today launched its nationwide services for providing ''Digital certificates to individuals and organisations aimed at boosting efforts for implementation of e-governance and e-commerce in the country''. Digital certificates can be explained as digital passports that help in authentication of the bearer on the net, while maintaining privacy and integrity of the net-based transactions. It is accorded the same value as paper-based signatures of the physical world by the Indian IT Act 2000 and each of these transactions help bring trust in the Internet-based transactions. Launching the services, Nasscom President Kiran Karnik said, ''The presence of a large number of credible public sector organisation in this domain will futher boost the efforts for implementation of e-governance in the country.'' He said that the safety and security of net-based transactions would enable to usher in higher levels of exellence at lower costs. Having carved an enviable reputation for itself in managing large and complex projects successfully, Mr Karnik said ''GNFC will duplicate its success in this IT venture as well.'' A K Luke, Managing Director of GNFC and another state-PSU Gujarat State Fertiliser Corporation, on this occasion, said ''The (n)Code Solutions infrastructure, set up for the purpose is at par with the best in the world.'' He said the GNFC was committed to diversifications in the emerging fields of IT like e-security. (n)Code Solutions has put in motion a nation-wide machinery to support different market segments like banking and financial institutions, public and private sector enterprises besides State and Central Government organisations, he added. He said the IT company of GNFC had simultaneously released a suite of applications like (n)Procure, (n)Sign, (n)Form and (n)Pay that make use of digital signatures to ensure safety and security in the virtual world in various ways. Mr Luke said these applications will address a wide spectrum of needs of the internet-dependent business world, ranging from online procurement to signing and sending web forms and enabling online payments to securing web servers or VPN devices. GNFC is a Rs 1800 crore fertiliser and chemicals company of the Gujarat Government. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'