NIC Punjab State Unit has successfully computerized the State Budget for Punjab Government for the year 1998-99. The Budget presented in the State Legislature contains the following documents which are now being generated through the computer : Vote of Accounts Demands for Grants (Four parts) Detailed Estimates of Revenue (Receipt part I & II) Annual Financial Statement Budget at a Glance Supplementary Demands Manual preparation of budget is very cumbersome and prone to errors. Last moment changes increase the workload. All the details from the lowest object level to the Demand number is compiled and use of computers makes this task much easier and all calculation errors are eliminated. Combination of Database, spreadsheet and word-processing software was used for preparation of complete budget. GIST terminals provided the facility of bilingual reports i.e. English and Punjabi (Gurmukhi). The proposal for up-gradation of Hardware under Client/Server computing and Local Area Networking (LAN) of Budget is underway. The LAN in Budget branch will be connected with the secretariat LAN so as to provide budget information to administrative secretaries. The software development in the client/server and LAN environment will be taken with the GUI tools.