The Union Minister for Finance, Defence and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley, launched here yesterday a common landing webpage of the Ministry of Finance, www.finmin.nic.in – which provides a single point access to all the websites of the five different Departments under the Ministry. The Finance Minister Shri Jaitley also launched the new website of the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance i.e. www.doe.gov.in

With diversification of the ICT landscape, it has become absolutely imperative for the Government Websites to bring in qualitative and quantitative transformations in wake of changing user expectations. As part of the Digital India Programme, the up-graded common landing webpage of the Ministry of Finance and the new website of the Department of Expenditure is a major step towards standardization and improvement in presentation and content delivery using the Content Management Framework (CMF). Both are GIGW (Guidelines for Indian Government Websites) compliant. The website is Mobile format friendly across all platforms viz. Android, Windows, iOS etc. The new website also has features of in-built search options, enablement of Text to Speech, Language Translation and Visitor Analytics among others.

Government website standardization: unified, GIGW compliant portals improve accessibility and content delivery across devices. A common landing webpage for the Ministry of Finance and a mobile friendly Department of Expenditure site were deployed using a Content Management Framework to centralize departmental websites and improve content delivery; both sites conform to the Guidelines for Indian Government Websites and incorporate mobile responsiveness, in built search, text to speech, language translation, and visitor analytics to standardize accessibility and governance under the Digital India initiative.