Project Background
Bihar, like many other Indian states, considering the cost-benefit analysis, have moved away from getting stamp papers printed in specialized green ledger, to generating stamps online. TerraCIS Technologies Ltd, a global technology leader with more than a decade of experience in providing the best-in-class IT solutions for efficient citizen service delivery and smart governance, through smart infrastructure, is our Sales and Technology partner. In 2023, they were awarded the project of taking forward Bihar state’s eStamp initiative to the next level. Project required developing a web-application that allows authorized centers to generate stamp documents and print it on a regular common blank paper, while still ensuring security elements of the printout. The phase of developing the utility to generate & print secure documents was outsourced to us, while the phase of creating the estamp platform, payment management and operations at 250+ locations was managed by TerraCIS.

Overcoming Challenges
We have proven expertise in generating and printing documents with multi-layered security starting from paper quality, variable data security to digital data storage. However, this project required to create a feature which, if printed on a paper and a photocopy taken, should distort that printed impression, making it a clear visible duplicate copy. Team of designers started RND for a variety of anti-copy features, to be printed digitally, on different printers. Finally we achieved it. Going ahead, we created a print-control utility that, once installed on the client computer, would control printing functionality. It would allow printing a stamp only once and it would allow printing only through authorized printers. This helped in avoiding duplicate printing and quality control. Distribution of this software, via version control, over a variety of Windows computers, with different sets of hardware and software configurations was equally challenging as we got involved hands-in-gloves with the operations team.

Success Story
Today, more than 300 locations, including judicial courts, with around 600 computers, in Bihar, use the estamp generation platform. The design, document generation, and print control of estamp is successfully deployed by our team.

News Article:
“Paper Stamps Will Now Be A Thing Of The Past In Bihar Sale Of E Stamps Will Start From This Date”
https://www.prabhatkhabar.com/state/bihar/patna/paper-stamps-will-now-be-a-thing-of-the-past-in-bihar-sale-of-e-stamps-will-start-from-this-date-asj