ONLINE GPF SYSTEM of Arunachal Bringing Transparency & Strenghtening e-Governance in the State
Catering to the need of Directorate of Accounts and Treasuries by incorporating all the features required for maintaining GPF accounts and generating all essential reports and statements, the online GPF System follows a very transparent approach in providing a comprehensive resource of information to all account holders and accounting units.
The online General Provident Fund (GPF) system provides an internet-based solution for employees (Group- A/ B/ C) under Government of Arunachal Pradesh. This e-Governance initiative facilitates GPF subscribers to interact with the Directorate of Accounts and Treasuries through the portal, thus serving a communication tool between the Government and its employees. The Online GPF System follows a very transparent approach in providing a comprehensive resource of GPF-related information open to all account holders and accounting units.
BACKGROUND The Directorate of Accounts and Treasuries, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh has been maintaining GPF accounts for all the Group- A/ B/ C level government employees of Arunachal Pradesh through an offline client-server based software, GPF Accounting System developed by NIC, Arunachal State Centre, Itanagar.
The system catered to the need of Directorate by incorporating all the features required for maintaining GPF accounts and generated all essential reports and statements.
HIGHLIGHTS • Opening a new account • Deposit/ Withdrawal • Advance • Approximately 43,000 employees are covered
Every year, the Directorate of Accounts and Treasuries had to send Balance Statements/ other information to its
http://arunaccounts.nic.in/eGPF/login.php
Ledger Sheet generated from e-GPF
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subscribers by post, which are prone to misplacement in transit and thus resulting in delays. This also incurs additional expenditure in the form of postal charges. Further, it was very difficult to know the status of final GPF payments after account closure, as the records were available centrally only at the Directorate. Conclusively, one can say that the offline system as such did not provide information directly to the GPF account holders though the system had all the required information.
TECHNOLOGIES USED IN e-GPF The e-GPF web-based application has been developed using PHP as the frontend with PostgreSQL as the backend. eGPF application has been security audited.
SALIENT FEATURES OF e-GPF • Provides secure online accounts to all the employees of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh. • Provides GPF annual statement online to the employees for viewing and printing. • Provides views of GPF Ledger, Missing Credit and/ or Debit Card information. • Provide status of final payment online to the concerned employee. • Provides views and prints balance sheet after final payment authority issued. • Download facilitation of all forms related to GPF like final payment. • Employees can update their profile information such as current address, mobile number etc.