In Himachal Pradesh, all the payments are made in electronic form by the Government to its Employees as well as the private vendors like contractors and other business entities. These payments are initiated by the concerned Drawing and Disbursing Officer and after going through the process of clearance, the final payment is made by the Government Treasuries through electronic mode to the bank account of the receiver. The complete Integrated Finance Management System is computerized by the National Informatics Centre, Himachal Pradesh for the Department of Finance, Himachal Pradesh.
It is the right of the citizen to know the payments and receipts received with details of all bills and heads. In this era of mobile computing, a paper-less solution with easy access to all the necessary information by the citizen would be an ideal solution. Taking this fact into consideration, as per the requirements of the department, NIC has proposed a solution in the form of a mobile application. Bhugtan mobile app helps the end-user, the private contractor or any other business entity as well as the Employees and Pensioners of Government of Himachal Pradesh to get the details of all payments made by the Government to them. The user has to add all bank accounts in which the user receives Government Payments. On successful addition of a bank account, the app provides Month wise as well as DDO wise list of payments user has received for any selected financial year. The user can also drill down bill details against each payment received. The app has helped pensioners as well as contractors to trace their payments easily.