Central Public Works Department Goes Digital
This has been done by networking all the 400 field offices of CPWD across the country through a special integrated portal ensuring digital payments from this month
Indian government’s construction major, Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has undergone a major digital transformation enabling payments worth Rs 20,000 crore per year electronically, informed Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs in an official statement.
This has been done by networking all the 400 field offices of CPWD across the country through a special integrated portal ensuring digital payments from this month.
With this, CPWD has become the first organization of a civil ministry to become digital at the field level, added the Ministry.
The new digital payment mode covers over six lakh transactions. The Office of Chief Controller of Accounts (CCA) of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has evolved this special Public Financial Management (PFMS) Portal for CPWD.
During a demonstration of this online payment system, Shyam Dubey, Office of Chief Controller of Accounts (CCA) of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs explained that it enables real time monitoring of expenditure in respect of each of the 25,000 projects across the country.
In yet another initiative, electronic Measurement Book (e-MB) has also been developed for CPWD that enables reporting of progress of works online as per the schedule of agreement with contractors based on which payments will be made. e-MB has been made mandatory from the first of next month doing away with manual reporting by all the 400 field offices.