PAO - 2000 (Pay and Accounting Software)

NIC has been providing software support for the computerization of various levels of accounting units of the Central Government Accounting sector, namely Pay and Accounts Offices (PAOs), Chief Controller of Accounts (CCAs) and Office of Controller General of Accounts (CGA) for the last 20 years. As the role of Information Technology has evolved from the level of support role to strategic role, NIC has been working with Office of CGA to implement high quality information system solutions that support payment and accounting functions and the business decisions of the PAOs. The result is PAO-2000 a software whose comprehensive design has been worked out keeping in mind, all the important functions of the PAOs. The Software covers the five important functions namely,

Pre Check, Budget, Masters, GPF, Pension and Compilation

The Software which has been developed in Visual Basic 6.0 as front end tool and MS-SQL Server 7.0 as back end RDBMS, provides interfaces with Payroll and Contact (ORA) packages.

Product Features

  1. The PAO-2000 software is at the lowest level of Accounting and it provides information to higher levels of accounting systems for future processing.
  1. The Software covers all the major Accounting functions i.e. Pre check, Compilation, GPF and Budget.
  1. The Software is a preparatory stride for ECS and EFT in Accounts Sector at the fundamental accounting level.

Information Integration

  1. It captures the accounts data from the original source i.e. the bill to improve the quality of data used for compilation and consolidation of accounts.
  1. Interface of the GPF Accounts with Pre-check and Compilation.

Operational Efficiency

  1. The operational efficiency of the accounting processes will be improved due to proper validations, speed, user friendly front-end, security features.
  1. Provision for incorporation of bills, vouchers, challans, scrolls and schedules.
  1. Access to the software for authorized users.
  1. Predefined access rights to the users of the forms and reports of the application.
  1. Client/Server application with Multi-user facility.
  1. Backup option through software.

Other Features

  1. Generation of Monthly Consolidated Accounts data in the electronic format for incorporation at the Principal Accounts Offices in the CONTACT Software database.
  1. Generation of various managerial reports for expenditure analysis like Expenditure Control Register, Receipt vs Expenditure comparison, Date Wise Monthly Statement(DMS).
  1. Generation of cheques for payment on pre-printed stationery issued from RBI.

For further information, write to vsrk@hub.nic.in