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Grant-in-aid salary bills of non-Government aided Secondary Schools/ Madrasahs generated through On-line salary management system (OSMS) of School Education Department of the State Government shall be accepted in the Treasury/ PAO.
Government of West Bengal
Finance Department
Audit Branch
No. 1872-F(Y) Dated: 2nd April, 2014.
MEMORANDUM
Sub: Submission of grant-in-aid bills/cheques for salary in COSA- compliant format
Preparation and generation of salary bills including those under grant-in-aid through COSA software developed by NIC was made mandatory vide FD Memo No. 1829-F(Y) dated 1st March 2012.
Now, it has been brought to the notice of the Government in Finance Department that –
(i) Grant-in-aid salary bills of non-Government aided Secondary Schools/ Madrasahs are being generated through a different software, namely, “On-line Salary Management System (OSMS)” which has been made COSA-compliant. OSMS is a web-based application software which has been developed by NIC to facilitate creation of empoyees’ database at the DDO-level based on the online requisition from schools, finalisation and approval of the database at the Dl of Schools (Secondary) level and generation of grant-in-aid salary bills at the DDO-level. In case of these grant-in-aid salary bills, one DDO draws and disburses salary for a number of schools/madrasahs.
(ii) Generation of grant-in-aid salary bills through COSA package or COSA-compliant package is necessary for the local bodies/ autonomous institutions which draw salary of its employees from the LF/ Deposit account of the concerned institutions. In these cases, the grant-in-aid salary in lump is at first transfer-credited to the LF /Deposit account by submission of bill in simple receipt form to the Treasury/ PAO, and then drawal of salary for the employees is made by submission of LF/ Deposit account cheque together with detailed salary bill for the employees to the Treasury/ PAO concerned.
The State Government, after consideration of the various issues and aspects involved in the above mentioned two categories of grant-in-aid salary bill generation, has decided that-
(a) Grant-in-aid salary bills of non-Government aided Secondary schools/madrasahs generated through “On-line salary management system (OSMS)” of School Education Department of the State Government shall be accepted in the Treasury/ PAO; and
(b) Salary bills generated through COSA software should accompany the LF/ Deposit account cheques for the grant-in-aid salary falling under item no. (ii) above. COSA software package meant for state Government employees has been suitably modified.
Therefore, the undersigned is directed by order of the Governor to say that-
Sd/- H.K. Dwivedi
Principal Secretary to the
Government of West Bengal.