Jaitley releases India 2016 & Bharat 2016
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said that with restructuring of Publications Division, there have been a paradigm shift to digitise various Government Publications in order to reach out to online readers globally.
Elaborating further, he said that digital version of the books would be 25% cheaper than printed versions and would also help in saving paper consumption. The Minister also stated that Annual Reference Book was an asset and a repository of information for all stakeholders.
The Minister also launched the online payment service and subscription of popular journals and Employment News of the Publications Division through Bharat Kosh, Non Tax Receipt portal of Ministry of Finance.
While launching the online subscription service, he said that the objective of technology was to provide solutions to complicated issues.
He mentioned that Bharat Kosh portal would enable direct transfer of money received from the sale of journals to the Consolidated Fund of India.
Jaitley also launched the service of sale of printed version of the prominent books of the Division through e-commerce platform such as Flipkart.
The Reference Book India 2016 along with forty nine other important titles would now be available on Flipkart.
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