GNFC launches Indian Digital Certification services

[R.A. Hettinga]

Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Company???

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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.


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