Darjeeling Tea Chain Integrity System on Tea Board Portal

The application comprises two sub-systems…

Web-based Invoice Management

• Maintenance of the Application Master for CTM (Certification Trade mark) Registration of Domestic and Overseas users. This would include new master creation as well as modification of their details.
• Daily invoice upload to the Invoice database maintained on the portal. At present there are 87 estates and the daily flow of invoices ranges between 100-200 numbers.
• Secured updation of actual amendments to invoice
• Maintenance of 3-year record of invoices for fast search and retrieval. The estimated number of invoices would be 2.5 lakhs.
• Access and listing of invoices based on search criteria
• Information scans and retrieval by season, garden, grade, period, etc.
• Data archiving and web presentation

Importers’ sub- module

This sub-system comprises Registration of Importers, tracking status of their agreements and filing of quarterly/periodic e-Returns. The steps are…

• Importers can submit request on the web-form for Registration
• Based on the importer’s country of origin, the Agreement draft for that jurisdiction would be made available to the importer for download and dispatch to Tea Board. A temporary license number and password would be issued for tracking the status of the importer’s application on the web
• The authorized official of Tea Board can download those Request form and periodically update the status of that application (e.g. Awaiting Agreement, Agreement received, In-process, Application Approved, Permanent License# issued, etc.)
• Using the Permanent license number and the Password, the importer can file their Returns on the web form quarterly or as and when required.
• The authorized official of DSS can download those Returns for merging with their application database. The downloaded Returns data are simultaneously flagged off on the web database