DAD celebrates 267th Annual Day
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 02 2014 :
The Defence Accounts Department (DAD), Ministry of Defence celebrated its 267th Annual Day at CGD A Training & Development Centre (CENTRAD), Brar Square today.
Inaugurating the event, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral RK Dhowan commended the dedication and professionalism of DAD personnel in providing prudent financial advice and adding to the management of the Defence budget.
Admiral RK Dhowan presented the "Raksha Mantri Awards for Excellence" to DAD employees selected for their outstanding contributions during 2013-2014 .
The team of PCDA (Pensions), Allahabad headed by Shri S Murali Krishnan from the office of CGDA and CB Yadav, from PCDA (Pensions) was conferred the award for e-initiatives in the area of Pension Sanction and e-scrolls based pension accounting.
The team of CDA Chennai headed by V Sampath, was conferred the award for the development of a new web based and more robust office automation software 'SUGAM' .
The team CGDA HQrs & CDA (Funds) Meerut led by Rajbir Singh, Senior Accounts officer, was awarded for their IT initiatives in streamlining the maintenance of Provident Fund accounts of more than 2.3 lakh Defence civilians, through Project 'NIDHI' .
During the occasion, an in-house developed "Defence Pensioners' Information Portal" was launched by the Scientific Adviser to Raksha Mantri Dr Avinash Chander.
It has been designed to provide pension related information to the 20 lakh pensioners paid by various banks.
The portal defence pension info.org can be accessed for details of pension received by the pensioner and the history of his pensionary benefits.
It is also equipped with facilities for online submission of feedbacks as well as grievances, if any, leading to their speedy redressal.