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(3) The Competent Authority shall get appropriate application software created, using which, the Signing Authorities, shall digitally sign the license, permit, certificate, sanction or approvals, and get the same audited by a third party agency, so as to ensure its security, reliability, performance and consistency, before it is deployed.
Every such application software created either by the Competent Authority or the Authorised Service Provider shall, inter-alia, possess the following features and capabilities, namely:-
(a) Secure Login of Authorized Agents and other employees of the Authorized Service Provider, as required to access the application system, through proper authorization and authentication process.
(b) Secure access of Authorised Agents, to the repositories of digitally signed electronic records maintained by the Competent Authorities, for printing and delivery of the digitally signed license, permit, certificate, sanction or approvals; and
(c) Assigning of a unique identification to each license, permit, certificate, sanction or approval and to the voucher or receipt issued by any authorized agent while providing electronic services to the citizens.
The Competent Authority or Authorised Service Provider, shall, while developing such software, take into account the following features and capabilities of the electronic record, namely:- a. life time;
b. preservability;
c. accessibility;
d. readability;
e. comprehensibility in respect of linked information;
f. evidentiary value in terms of authenticity and integrity;
g. controlled destructibility; and h. augmentability.
The Competent Authority shall get such application software audited by a third party agency, so as to ensure its security, reliability, performance and consistency, before it is deployed and also as and when changes are made in the application software.