[Resolved]  Digital India Deal — license renewal

Address: Meerut, Uttar Pradesh

In uttar pradesh, traders dealing in agricultural products have to obtain mandi samiti license or get it renewed every year to trade in mandi. Earlier the whole process of renewal was done manually. However under the"digital india", the above said process got digitalized. Now e-license will be issued. But surprisingly the power to obtain/renew the license still lies with some specified mandi samiti government officials only and the necessary documents need to be deposited with such officials due to which the aim of "digital india" got subsumed. Same as before, such government officials are demanding money even for accepting the application for allotment or renewing the license. Time period for renewal is also limited to only 15 days. On refusal to give money to such officials, trader is threatened of future heavy penalties along with rejection of his application.
In my opinion, traders should be allowed to upload the necessary documents online independently.