On Going IT initiatives in this Directorate
* DAT, Puducherry having eTreasury, consist of 2 Web Servers, 2 DB servers and a Staging server with Router, Firewall and Switches.(eTreasury Architecture-Annexure-I).
Server to Server Integration
* Treasury Server integrated with PFMS (Public Financial Management System) Server, New Delhi, for Budget, Expenditure and Payee data sharing from Treasury to PFMS portal for the CSS on regular basis.
* Treasury Server integrated with GSTN portal for Tax payer data, fetching through the API method.
* The Treasury Server is connected with RBI eKuber GST Server through SFTP for transferring the GST Accounts and Credit Notification files on regular basis.
* Treasury server is whitelisted with RBI-eKuber ePayment server through SFTP method for uploading the ePayment files and downloading the e-scroll.
In-House Development
* At present 10 Web Application are running in this DAT web servers with 24x7 for last 6 year without any down time. (Annexure-II).
* DAT, DDAT Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam Regions are interconnected with our serves through the Web Application, for functioning their DDAT activities. Single DB maintained in all Regions.
* Around 400 DDO’s are regularly accessing the DAT web servers for various Departmental activities.
* Around 30 types of Bills are digitalised. The DDO’s can prepare the Bills through online. (Bills Type-Annexure-III).
* Provision for preparation of eBill for the DDOs for the payment of Current Consumption/Water Charges/Telephone bills. After passing the bills the Payments also directly disbursed to the concerned Departments like Electricity/PWD and BSNL. Also, the Payment details like Consumer reference Number, CC charges, billing details data, downloading facility provided to the above said Departments. This results in reducing the cheque payments issued by the DDO’s and work load also reduced and amount settled in time.
* Manual Bills are not entertained at DAT, DDAT Bill Counters since all the payments are digitalised.
* Budget data and Bill details for payment data, fetched at Bill Counter at the time of scanning the Authorisation Slips. DAT server inter connected with the NIC, Puducherry server for Data transferring.
* After scrutinizing the invoice/Bills, the Bills Passing/Rejected by the Auditor of the Pay Sections through system.
* Voucher level compilation are done at Account Section for preparation of Monthly Accounts.
* ePayment files are prepared and Bank Details verified at Cash Section.
* Download the ePayment files, attached the encrypted DSC with payment file in zip format, upload the file by the Uploader.
* After authorisation of Level-I and Level-II, the ePayment files are queued at DAT level. Once approved by the DAT/DDAT (other Regions), the files are moved to RBI, eKuber server through the SFTP method, disbursement of payment to the Staff/Beneficiary/Vendor Bank Accounts in time at the scheduled date.
Digital Payment Advice Details/e-Enquiry
* Payment details can be viewed with print out facility. This facility is made to enable the DDO’s to keep details of payment made to Beneficiaries/vendors in the office records for future use.
* Token Number wise/DDO wise/ECS number wise Bill status viewing facility provided to the Common Citizen. The Beneficiaries/Vendors/Staff/DDO’s not required to visit the DAT/DDAT for their payments confirmation. Token issuing system was stopped at DAT/DDATs.
* Return payment viewing facility provided to the DDO’s at the time of Login, pop-up screen flashed and printing facility provided to the DDO’s.
* Annual GPF Slip downloading facility to both the DDOs and Staff.
* GPF Subscription/Advance Drawal Viewing Facility to the Govt. Employees.
* The GPF final withdrawal proposal preparation through online for the timely settlement.
* Facilitates to upload the employee contribution in the NSDL portal in time (within 7 days).
* Facilities to view the recovery of short term advances viz. HBA/MCA/PCA to DDOs/Employees and to facilitate clearance of advance expediously.
* Monthly Compilation and Consolidation of Accounts are uploaded in this DAT website for reconciliation purpose to the DDO’s. This result the DDO’s to reconcile the accounts at their end and reduce usage of office machineries.
* GPF section fully computerised which results in reducing the manual works.
* GPF, NPS, LIC, NIC, HBA/MCA/PCA data are digitally received and the manual data entry works are entirely reduced.
Pension Section Fully Computerised
* To facilitate the preparation of pension papers (Form-7) intact by the Head of Office (staff details received in electronical mode) and issue of Pension Payment Order/Pension Book by DAT in time and the single person dependency was broken. System will guide to enter the pension proposal.
* Preparation of working sheet for pension/revision of pension on account of grant of MACP etc./Order for revision of pension.
* Payment of pensionary benefits through ECS/eKuber.
* The Pensioners have the provision to view the monthly pension/arrears disbursed to them with downloading and printing facility.
* Pension Pre-2016 proposal received from the DDO’s online, verified by the DAT and the Revised Pension Orders issued to the Pensioners.
* To redress the grievance of the Pensioners/Govt. Employees in service matters online.
Puducherry Accounting Authority System Integration with GSTN portal through API method
* The State Accounting Authority (DAT) is being fetched the tax payers data from the GSTN portal and shared the GSTN data to Commercial Taxes Department through the PYGST application developed by this Directorate for Tax Payer’s verification. A separate user credential given to Commercial Tax Department to download the GSTN and RBI eKuber data for verification of the Tax Payer’s details.
BEAMS (Budget Estimation and Monitoring System) Maintained by NIC, Puducherry
* The HoDs are in a position to know at any point of time what is the expenditure they have booked for their Departments and their Sub-Offices.
* The Finance Department can monitor the Cash Flow of Departments in respect of Budget/Expenditure.
* BEAMS helps to bridge the information gap between DDOs, DAT and Budget Section of Finance Department.
GRAS (Government Receipt Accounting System) Maintained by NIC, Puducherry
* Citizen can make the payments through on-line (net banking).
* The DDOs shall use GRAS portal as registered users for remitting the money collected by them manually in SBI along with the Challan generated from GRAS.
* Transactions shall be settled on T+1 and T+2 day basis.
* DDOs of the Revenue Collecting Departments are having the provision to generate e-challan instead of manual challan.
* DDOs are in a position to know at any point of time the total revenue collections received from the vendor/agencies.
* DAT can monitor the overall receipt received from DDOs.