The Department of Sales Tax of India

Country:  India
City:  Delhi

Background
 

• Requirement to streamline taxation procedures in various states of India due to switching from sales tax to value-added tax (VAT)
• Optimizing the IT-infrastructure of the Department of Sales Tax of India (DST)
• Need to reliably restrict access to sensitive data and tax secrets

Scope
 

• Design and implementation of the information security component for the tax document control system based on biometric identification techniques

 
Implementation
 

• Delivery of several hundreds of branded optical fingerprint scanners - BioLink U-Match 3.5
• Installation of biometric scanners in four DST branches and 10 control points across the city of Delhi
• Access restriction to the DST corporate network and user identification by fingerprints
• Integration of biometric identification functions into the tax control document system via the biometric software development toolkit - BioLink SDK
• Implementation of a two-level access control solution, designed to gain access to sensitive information and tax secrets by primary identification when accessing the corporate network and authorization in the tax document control system

Outcome
 

• An enhanced information security system is developed, allowing the processing of data by DST employees, the management of their access rights and audit procedures related to biometric identification of users
• Biometric identification features are embedded both into general management modules, such as the HR module, the payroll and pension modules, budgeting and cost control modules, the asset management module, and into the dedicated portion of the document control system (registration of taxpayers, collection of taxes, return of overpayments and VAT registration)
• It is expected that the project scope will be expanded to over 1,200 users