Launching of ASSA (Automation of Small Savings Activities) Portal at Odisha

Hon’ble Minister, of Finance & Public Enterprises of Govt. of Odisha, Sh. Pradip Kumar Amat inaugurated the launching of Small Savings Portal on 14th August 2015 in the presence of Sh. Debi Prasad Mishra, Hon’ble Minister of Department of Industries, Govt. of Odisha, Sh. R. Balakrishnan, IAS, Addl. Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha and State Informatics Officer, NIC-Odisha State Centre Sh. Susanta Kumar Panda along with officers from NIC, Odisha State Centre, Directorate of Small Savings, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha and members of News Paper Agencies and Media.

The main objective of ASSA portal is to capture data on small saving deposits at field level offices across the state, which can be directly used as input for small savings incentive lucky draw. The launching of Small Savings Portal has taken up the job of providing a more transparent, efficient, and accurate small saving lottery process along with basic citizen services.

While inaugurating, Hon’ble Minister appreciated the joint efforts made by Directorate of Small Savings, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha and NIC by establishing an ICT based solution that will cater the need of the organization with the objective to automate the entire small savings activities workflow i.e. starting from preparation of field level data to final publication of lottery results.

Sh.R. Balakrishnan, IAS, Addl. Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha, in his address highly appreciated the efforts made by NIC, Odisha State Centre for supporting various computerization activities in Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha. He emphasized on validation details while capturing filed level data and issuing of lucky draw coupons.

In his guest of honor address Sh. Susanta Kumar Panda, DDG & SIO, NIC, Odisha State Centre thanked the finance department for entrusting on NIC to develop the Automation of Small Savings Activities (ASSA) Portal, which will be very useful for field level staff of Directorate of Small Savings and general citizen to fetch lucky draw coupons on Small Savings. The event was coordinated by team of finance comprising Sh. Dilip Kumar Jena (TD), Smt. Minati Sahu (TD) and Sh. Bebin Mishra, (STA-B) from NIC, Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar along with Sh. Biraj Kumar Das, Special Secretary cum Director, (Small Savings), Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha.