With the launch of MCA-21, e-filing and e-governance is the
buzzword. This has made possible for Company Directors, Professionals, Financial
Institutions and other Authorized Signatories to do e-filing with the MCA.
After MCA income tax also went online by launching its website for
filing e-returns. Filing of e-returns require digital signatures
though not mandatory but it saves the hassle of physically sending
the documents to department if digitally signed. Further by the
initiative of the Govt. a lot many organisations like IREPS,
Northern Railways, ONGC, GAIL, IFFCO have started the process of
e-tendering & other online processes.
One of the pre-requisites for e-filing is Digital Signature Certificate
(DSC).
Digital Signature Certificates to individuals:
Through (n) Code Solutions & E-mudhra we offer an entire range of Individual
Certificates tailored to address various needs of the Market. These Certificates are used
for a host of purposes like secure authentication, signing documents or transactions, etc.
Digitally signed documents or transactions have the same legal validity as physically
signed documents in any Indian court of law as per the Indian IT Act 2000, provided they
have been signed via a Digital Signature Certificate issued by a licensed Certifying
Authority in India.
Various kind of individual digital signatures are as follows:
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(n)
21 DSC Class-II signatures - For Income tax & ROC filing
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(n) Pro DSC Class-III
signatures - For companies to file e-tender for organizations like
IFFCO, IREPS. ONGC, For Stock Broking companies for signing contract
notes.
- (n) eXIM signatures - For EXIM community to interact with DGFT.
(Only (n) code & safescrypt provide these signatures.
- (n) Rail DSC signatures - For IRCTC agents for e-ticketing.
- (n) Serv Signatures- A 128 bit SSL certificates for
websites. It is a class III certificate issued to websites having live I.P.
One can authenticate the identity of the website and carry out
transactions securely