23-05-2025
Govt brings convenience fee for online services
Govt has decided to charge a convenience fee of Rs 10 (excluding taxes) for all the services provided through the Goa online portal.
In addition to the convenience fee, a Rs 20 service fee will also be levied on 13 specific services, which were earlier available free of cost for all.
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The service fee will now be payable on services such as the issuance of income certificates, domicile certificates, residence certificates, divergence certificates, caste/community certificates, matrices certificates, and applications for sound permission, job fairs, the Mamta scheme, employment exchange registration, returns filing under the Factories Act, the online return filing system, and returns filing under road accident and other dangerous incidence occurrence, among others.
This step essentially implies that all the users will now have to pay a total of Rs 30 to avail themselves of these services when applying through the portal.
However, the applicants using the Citizen Service Centres or Common Service Centres (CSC-SPV) to access these services will be exempt from the charges. It has also notified that the implementing agency for this convenience fee implementation Goa Electronics Limited (GEL), will collect the charges. TNN
