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The government has made A-Challan mandatory for depositing all public revenues and other government receipts from July 1, 2026, aiming to bring every receipt into the Treasury Single Account in real time, end manual challans and strengthen public cash management.
From the beginning of FY2026-27, no ministry, division, department or subordinate office will be allowed to collect or deposit government revenue through any system other than A-Challan, according to a press release issued Tuesday morning.
The release said any separate arrangement currently used for collecting public receipts will have to be discontinued, while funds lying in commercial bank accounts must be transferred to the government’s Treasury Single Account through A-Challan by June 30, 2026.
The decision comes at a time when the digital challan platform has recorded strong growth in both value and use, showing that A-Challan has gradually become one of the most important digital tools in public financial management.
According to the fiscal year-wise A-Challan report, Tk 4,07,225.94 crore was collected through the system in FY2025-26, up from Tk 265,708 crore in FY2024-25. This means collections rose by nearly 50 percent in a single year.
A-Challan recorded strong growth in FY2025-26, processing 6.75 crore challans, up 71.7 percent from 3.93 crore in FY2024-25. Since its modest start with only 17 challans in FY2019-20, the platform has expanded rapidly, handling over 19.03 crore challans and mobilising more than Tk 10.63 lakh crore in government receipts over seven fiscal years.
The latest performance marks a major turnaround, as both collections and transaction volumes increased together, reflecting wider use across government revenue and service payment channels.
Online challans surged 92 percent to 5.36 crore, while online collections rose 54.5 percent to Tk 11,298.12 crore. OTC transactions also grew, with collections increasing to Tk 386,397.55 crore during the fiscal year.
The full implementation of A-Challan would help the government know its actual cash position more accurately, reduce idle public money in scattered bank accounts and improve cash management.
Under the manual system, citizens often had to deposit challans at designated branches of selected banks, mainly Bangladesh Bank or Sonali Bank.