Awareness programme held

An awareness programme on Integrated Financial and Human Resource Management System for government employees was held at the Collectorate here on Friday.

The programme was chaired by Tenkasi S Jawahar, Principal Secretary/Commissioner of Treasuries and Accounts and was conducted by R. Sukumar, District Revenue Officer.

Mr. Jawahar said that the State government had proposed to implement the system by integrating the existing Automated Treasury Bill Passing System, Web Pay roll and e-pension software.

A sum of ₹ 288.91 crore was sanctioned as project cost for the implementation that will be executed by a private company. He said that 29,000 Drawing and Disbursing Officers throughout the State will be able to submit the bills to the treasury online.

This system will provide real time data on revenue and expenditure and will also pave way for smooth maintenance of Service Register of all government employees on real time basis by which the employee's pay bill, promotion, transfer, leave are managed online.

This new system is expected to be rolled out by October 2018, he added. The Service Register of about 9 lakh government employees, 37,558 employees in Salem district are being digitised, he added.

Mr. Jawahar said that mustering process of 7.39 lakh pensions will be administered at 270 locations through the 31 district treasuries and 238 sub-treasuries and Pension Pay Office at Chennai. During the current year, 20343 out of 29705 Pensioners have been mustered at the District Treasury and 10 Sub Treasuries at Salem District so far.

He said that during the financial year 2017-18, salaries and pension to the tune of ₹ 825.89 crore and ₹ 1,736.79 crore have been disbursed to the employees and pensioners respectively in Salem District.

A. Periasamy, District Forest Officer, Salem; J. Vimala Rosline, Principal, Government Engineering College; S. Bhuvaneshwari, Regional Joint Director of Treasuries and Accounts, Vellore; S. Venkatesan, Treasury Officer, Salem District; among others participated.