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NEW WEBSITE FOR DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE

Arun Jaitley launched a common landing webpage of the Ministry of Finance

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

            The Union Minister for Finance, Defence and Corporate Affairs Shri Arun Jaitley launched a common landing webpage of the Ministry of Finance and the Mobile Format Friendly New Website of the Department of Expenditure.

Jyaistha 12, 1939

New Delhi, June 02, 2017

            The Union Minister for Finance, Defence and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley, launched here today a common landing webpage of the Ministry of Finance, www.finmin.nic.in – which provides a single point access to all the websites of the five different Departments under the Ministry. The Finance Minister Shri Jaitley also launched the new website of the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance i.e. www.doe.gov.in

            With diversification of the ICT landscape, it has become absolutely imperative for the Government Websites to bring in qualitative and quantitative transformations in wake of changing user expectations. As part of the Digital India Programme, the up-graded common landing webpage of the Ministry of Finance and the new website of the Department of Expenditure is a major step towards standardization and improvement in presentation and content delivery using the Content Management Framework (CMF). Both are GIGW (Guidelines for Indian Government Websites) compliant. The website is Mobile format friendly across all platforms viz. Android, Windows, iOS etc. The new website also has features of in-built search options, enablement of Text to Speech, Language Translation and Visitor Analytics among others.

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