IFMS

With the introduction of e-Pradan (e-Payment), issuance of cheques from the treasuries/PAO’s will be discontinued and instead payment will be credited directly into the bank accounts of the payees.

Finance Department intends to implement the second module of IFMS, viz. e-Pradan (e-Payment from 1st December, 2014) gradually covering all the treasuries and DDOs by 31st March, 2015.

E-Pradan, another module of Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS), is an online payment system against bills submitted by the Drawing and Disbursing officer (DDO) to the Treasury/ PAO.

In order to monitor and supervise the processes towards implementation of IFMS Project in the districts, it has been decided to form a District Level Committee with the following officials of Govt. of West Bengal.

To organize training programme on IFMS in each district and sub-divisions for the training of all DDOs and SAOs. The Nodal Officers-cum-Master Trainers will impart the training of all DDOs and SAOs at the district and sub-division level.

For imparting training to the District officials, the officers as listed in the Annexure have been selected as Nodal Officers cum Master Trainers of the respective District Head Quarters/Sub-Divisions for e-Banton module of IFMS.

Approval to fund flow through e-bantan module of IFMS does not need any separate allotment order other than the system generated one. Any conventional method of preparation of allotment letter and forwarding the same manually may result in duplication and will not be entertained in the Treasury/ PAO.

e-Bantan module will cover the entire processes of digitized fund flow ending up at the Drawing and Disbursing Officer’s level. For the purpose, it requires provisioning of Internet Connectivity up to the DDO level.

The facility for ‘Online Re-appropriation System’ shall be not be available to the Administrative Departments on and from 01.02.2014. After this period, in case of necessity, the Administrative Departments may move to the Budget Branch of Finance Department for ‘Offline Re-appropriation’.

IFMS is an IT-enabled system to integrate and record all the Government financial transactions, online-monitoring, generation of MIS reports etc., including treasury computerisation and integration of treasury function with DDO, Banks and AGWB.

To decentralise the power of re-appropriation by introducing ‘On-line Re-appropriation System’ as an e-Governance activity with a view to establishing accountability, transparency and uniformity in the system in a centralised manner.

Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) comprising all aspects of treasury and budget functions including integration of receipt and expenditure accounts of the State Government.