DIGITAL SIGNATURE CERTIFICATE ISSUING AUTHORITIES

Some of the dealers are required to obtain Digital Signature Certificate from
the appropriate certifying authority for making online application for the issue of
CST related Forms and Way Bill. A list of such dealers has been displayed in this
website.
A licensed Certifying Authority (CA) issues the digital signature. At present
the following organisations are authorized Certifying Authorities under CCA,
Government of India.
1. NIC (For Government Departments/ Undertakings only)
2. (n)Code Solutions CA(GNFC)
3. Safescript
4. TCS
5. MTNL
6. Customs & Central Exercise
7. e-Mudhra
8. IDRBT
The respective website addresses of those CAs are provided below:
http://nicca.nic.in
www.ncodesolutions.com
www.safescrypt.com
www.tcs-ca.tcs.co.in
www.mtnltrustline.com
www.icert.gov.in
www.e-mudhra.com
The particulars of the Certifying Authority are available from the respective
websites. It would be sufficient for the Commercial Taxes applications if the dealer
obtains Class 2 Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) from the CA. After obtaining
the Digital Signature Certificates as mentioned above, the dealer is required to
register the fact of possessing the Digital Signature Certificates through the
registration system available in this website.
All the procedural details in this connection are available in this website
through the link ‘Registration for Digital Signature Certificate (DSC)’

If you have any question or doubts, please feel free to write to the Help Desk
of the Directorate or send e-mail at the address : cthelpdesk-wb@nic.in.
Telephone No. 2251-1493 / 1494 / 1495.
 NIC Test Report for Commercial Taxes e-Application
On Digital Signature Certificate
Certificates those are tested in our application software are given below and
our application software compatibilities are also mentioned.

CA USB PKCS .dll file used Our Application

Token/Smart standard Compatibility
Card Used
e-Mudhra eToken PKCS#11 eTPKCS11.dll YES
(Aladdin)
nCode eToken PKCS#11 eTPKCS11.dll YES
Solution (Aladdin)
NIC eToken PKCS#11 dkck201.dll YES
(Aladdin)
Safescrypt eToken PKCS#11 eTPKCS11.dll YES
(Aladdin)
TCS eToken PKCS#11 eTPKCS11.dll YES
(Aladdin)
TCS Safenet 2032 PKCS#11 dkck201.dll YES

Safescrypt UKey 1000 PKCS#11 NO

e-Mudhra PKCS#12 YES

nCode PKCS#12 YES
Solution
MTNL PKCS#12 YES
Safescrypt PKCS#12 YES
TCS PKCS#12 YES