Treasuries among the first offices in State to be fully computerised
Source: The Sangai Express / DIPR

Imphal, August 28 2016: Treasuries are among the first offices to be fully computerised in the State.

Computerization of all Treasuries was initiated during the year 2005-2006 under the funding of the 11th Finance Commission.

The hardware installations were then taken up along with computerisation for bill passing through "Treasury Net" software.

Computerization of pension database and payments for all the pensioners of Manipur was taken up during 2007-08 and it has helped in computerised pension calculation, life digital photography of pensioners replacing manual and lengthy procedures.

Computerisation of pension payment was initiated to eradicate the inefficiencies of manual pension payment system thereby reducing delay in pension disbursement and removing fraudulent practices.

Manipur is the only State in the North East region where pension preparation is done by the Treasuries while in other States, it is been handed over to the bank.

At present, there are around 48000 pensioners/family pensioners.

In recognition of the work of pension preparation by Treasuries, the Directorate of Treasuries & Accounts, Manipur has been conferred the 3rd e-North East Award, 2012 held at Gangtok, Sikkim on November 2012 .

The National Pension System (NPS) was introduced in the State for the Government employees who have joined the State service on or after January 1, 2005.Till date, there are around 23,500 NPS subscribers in the State.

The Directorate of Treasuries & Accounts ensures regular credit of contributions to the respective NPS subscribers' account.

The Directorate has taken up various initiatives to sensitize the stakeholders concerned like DDOs and subscribers by conducting numerous training and awareness programmes.

During the Financial Year 2015-16, huge backlog of NPS contributions of employees of the Government of Manipur has been successfully credited to the respective subscriber's account.

Timely submission of NPS related registrations and contributions have been taken up by the subscribers as well as DDOs following the awareness programmes.

In consultation with RBI, payment of monthly salary of the employees and other personal entitlements are done through Electronic Clearing Services (Credit) from October, 2009 .

Manipur is the first State in the entire North East region to take up electronic fund transfer for payments by using ECS (Credit) of Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

RBI not only appreciated Manipur for being a model State but also awarded the Jury Special Mention at the 2nd e-North East Awards, 2011 held at RIELIT, Kohima, Nagaland on November 2011 for the project on "The Payment of salary through ECS (Credit) for the Government Employees of Manipur" .

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