Hon’ble Minister, Finance and Public Enterprises, Govt. of Odisha, Sj. Prafulla Chandra Ghadai inaugurated the launch of Local Fund Audit Portal on 14th May’2012 in the august presence of Principal Secretary, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha, Sj. Jugal Kishore Mohapatra, IAS and State Informatics Officer, NIC-Odisha State Centre Sj. Susanta Kumar Panda along with officers from NIC, Odisha State Centre, Local Fund Audit, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha and members of News Paper Agencies and media. The objective of Automation of Local Fund Audit (ALFA) is to provide more Fiscal Discipline and Efficiency in Audit. The launching of Local Fund Audit (LFA) Portal has taken up the job of providing a more transparent, efficient and accurate Audit Process along with basic citizen services. Sj. Ghadai appreciated the joint efforts made by Local Fund Audit, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha and NIC by establishing an ICT based solution that will cater the need of the organization with objective to automate the Audit workflow i.e. starting from preparation of Annual Audit Programme to finally publication of Audit Reports and recording the compliances. Sj. Jugal Kishore Mohapatra, IAS Principal Secretary, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha in his keynote highly appreciated the efforts made by NIC, Odisha State Centre for supporting various computerization activities in Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha. The Guest of Honour, Sj. Susanta Kumar Panda, SIO, NIC, Odisha State Centre addressing on the occasion thanked the finance department for entrusting on NIC to develop the Automation of Local Fund Audit (ALFA )Portal. The Inaugural session was followed by the training for all District Audit Officers (DAO) by Smt. Minati Sahu, PSA along with Shri S.Sarangi from Local Fund Audit office on general concepts and workflow of ALFA (Automation of Local Fund Audit) portal. The event was coordinated by Shri Dilip Kumar Jena, TD and Smt. Minati Sahu, PSA from NIC, Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar.