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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