The NIC Mizoram State Unit has successfully computerized the Annual Budget for 1996-1997 for the Government of Mizoram. This is to be placed in the Budget Session of the Mizoram assembly this year. It helped the Finance Department in preparing the documents of the budget within a stipulated period of time.
The Budget System was demonstrated to the Commissioner, Finance, at the Mizoram State Unit of NIC. On this occasion, the Commissioner said that the computerized reports and documents were excellent and the services that NIC is providing are of great use to all. The Secretary, the Joint Secretary, Finance and the Controller of Presses were also present on the occasion.
All through these years the Finance Department has been allocating huge funds to different departments under different heads in order to develop the budget related documents. Amongst these, the most voluminous document is the Demands of Grants which consists of at least 55 demands and also contains estimated figures of the current year's budget. The document runs into 550 pages and the compilation of this manually requires a lot of manpower and resources. This was also a time consuming and inconvenient process and, modifications if any, were difficult to perform.
But this year the Finance Department has heaved a sigh of relief with the computerization of the budget system which has helped in minimising work load, and has saved the department from undertaking the hectic job of collection and compilation of data.
The system has helped in saving a lot of resources, money as well as manpower. The Finance Department has been so impressed by computerization of the budget that they have expressed interest in complete computerization of the Finance Department.