AG Notification invalidated
Online GPF Statements of government employees rejected by Treasury Dept
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 22 2014:
Even though the Accountant General of Manipur had launched the online GPF Information System at its website for use by the GPF subscribers of state government while applying for GPF advances or withdrawals, the GPF statements of the employees downloaded from the website are not respected by the state Treasury Department.
The administrative lacuna has obviously caused harassments to the 30,000 odd employees of the Manipur Government.
A notification (bearing no.EDP(A&E)/TRY-COM/2013-14) issued by Senior Deputy Accountant general (A&E), Government of Manipur on September 1 last informed the GPF subscriber employees whose accounts are maintained by the Accountant General, Manipur that their GPF statements downloaded from the website http://agmpr.cag.gov.ni/gpfonline can be used while applying for GPF advances and withdrawals.
The notification mentioned that the employees excluding the grade-IV employees of the government can download their GPF statements from the website by submitting their personal identification numbers.
Moreover, the DDOs/TOs/STOs or other sanctioning authorities of various departments were also asked to download the Quick reference Code Reader and install the same in their Android Smartphones for verification of the balances shown in the statements submitted by subscribers in their applications for advances, withdrawals or final payments of GPF.
However, when certain employees of the state government went on the process for withdrawal of their GPF by downloading the statements from the website and obtaining verification from the concerned DDOs, the Treasury Department rejected the downloaded statements saying the online statements are yet to be accepted.
On being enquired at the Treasury Department, this Daily was informed that the Finance Department of Manipur Government has not yet issued an order to allow the process with download GPF statements, despite the fact that Accountant General Office made the notification nearly 2 months back.
According to an employee who was seeking withdrawal of his GPF advances by using the online statement extracted from the AG website, the government officials in the administration have harassed the employees by delaying their official works.
With the biggest festivals of Diwali and Ningol Chakouba round the corner, the employees who have attempted to withdraw their GPF are facing numerous inconveniences due to administrative inefficiency on the part of the concerned state government department.