GNFC launches Indian Digital Certification services

[Sarad AV]

Never heard of it though the website mentions that it
is an enterprise of the gujarat state government.
Strange indeed!

Sarad.



--- "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com> wrote:

> Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Company???
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> Thursday, February 10, 2005  
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> Business News
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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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