ISLAMABAD
\nThe Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) and Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) on Tuesday joined hands and signed an agreement for the digitalization and automation of IPO Pakistan.
\nThe agreement was signed by Director General, IPO Ms. Shazia Adnan and Director General, PITB Saima R. Shaikh for automation and digitalization IPO to facilitate the common masses and business in the country.
\nOn this occasion, Chairman IPO, Ambassador Farukh Amil said that the visibility on indifferent platforms and public awareness are the major priority of IPO at this time, which will make it accessible to the business classes and especially the youth.
\nThe Chairman IPO said that at present, we were working on digitalization of IPO with the support of PITB, which was an important tool for modernizing institutions in the modern world, which provided facilities to the public and business classes.
\nHe said that a large part of the population of Pakistan consisted of youth and the youth were currently mostly connected to IT and social media and after this facility, they would be able to make online complaints or other facilities in IPO.
\nFarukh said that IPO was currently making the youth aware of IPO in universities and educational institutions, which would increase the trend of financial education among them.He said that after automation in the IPO, there would be transparency and simplification of processes in the institution.
\nOn this occasion, Director General, IPO, Shazia Adnan said that after this agreement with PITB, online payments and another documentation process would be made easy in the next two months and this would also promote Ease of Doing Business (EODB) in IPO.
\nShe said with this agreement, you can do documentation or payment processes through 27 different channels including online banking which will provide convenience to people.The Director General IPO said that work on this process started last October 2023 and now 17 forms could be submitted through the online system.
\nShe said that now people will not need to come to the IPO office for the process, the process has been simplified through 33 different modules.Shazia said that now \u201cwe are strengthening the digitalization regime in the IPO so that the trend of Ease of Doing Business increases in the organization and facilities become available.
\nShe said the primary objective of this MOU is to provide the basis for the IPO-PAKISTAN to digitize its collection and payment system by implementing an alternate method of payments.She said that a technology-based solution had to be devised that would provide an easy mode of collection for IPO-PAKISTAN using digital mediums such as mobile applications and web portals.
\nThis will also help IPO-Pakistan to integrate with all banking channels to monitor financial transactions related to multiple modes of collections which may result in increasing the revenue for the government and streaming the financial operations, she said.
\nMeanwhile, DG PITB Saima R Sheikh said that PITB was currently providing institutional support for digitization of IPO, which would simplify the process of IPO and make it easier for the people.
\nShe said that the ease of doing business in an IPO would be improved by the online process and the efficiency of the organization will increase.
\nSaima said that facilities will be made available to the people through online systems such as baking and Medias. Director General, PITB said that after this online system comes, the services and delivery system will be better and the working of the organization will be better.
\nRegarding the scope of the project, she said that the scope comprised the automation and digitization of payment collection of IPO-Pakistan via all Alternative Delivery Channels (ADC) in an efficient manner.
\nShe said that PITB would provide a web-based software solution named PayZen to digitize the payments against all collections and payments of IPO-Pakistan by integrating their line of business application. In the future once digital challans will be issued by IPO-Pakistan, PSID will appear on those digital challans, she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD The Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) and Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) on Tuesday joined hands and signed an agreement for the digitalization and automation of IPO Pakistan. The agreement was signed by Director General, IPO Ms. Shazia Adnan and Director General, PITB Saima R. Shaikh for automation and digitalization IPO to facilitate the common […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-377019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"\n