The Reserve Bank of India has extended the date for sending comments on Report of the Technical Committee on Enabling Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in Payment System Applications. The comments may now be emailed or sent by post to the Chief General Manager-In-Charge, Department of Information Technology, Reserve Bank of India, Central Office, 14th Floor, Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Mumbai-400001 on or before March 15, 2014.

Background

The Reserve Bank of India had, in September 2013, constituted a group to prepare an approach paper for enabling PKI for the Payment Systems in India comprising members from banks (State Bank of India and ICICI bank), Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology-Certifying Authority (IDRBT-CA), Controller of Certifying Authority (CCA), New Delhi and Reserve Bank of India [(Department of Technology (DIT), Department of Payment and Settlement Systems (DPSS), Department of Government and Bank Accounts (DGBA) - Core Banking Solution (CBS) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)].

The Report was released on February 7, 2014 on the RBI website for public comments.

Alpana Killawala
Principal Chief General Manager

Press Release : 2013-2014/1755