Bihar is one of the medium sized States of India having the second largest population in the Country. Presently the State has 13 Divisions and 55 Districts spanning around 75,566 villages. Since Treasury falls under the purview of State Plan, every District of the State has a Treasury associated with it.
Treasury is the place where all public accounts of the Province are kept. In other words, all the monetary transactions of the Province are conducted through Treasury. District Treasury is not only a principal organ but custodian of Govt money. Needless to say, the proper functioning of Treasury System is a must for every State.
Treasury-Bihar is an organization having an employee strength of 1,00,000 working in different Districts or sub-treasuries. Over the years, the workload at these treasuries had increased manyfold and status tracking was becoming difficult. Two years back, State authorities thought of computerization as a possible solution and sought the help of NIC-Bihar State Unit.
Inauguration of Computer centre at District Treasury Office
With the help of the State Finance Deptt, NIC Studied the entire system and proposed a Statewide computerization plan with an investment worth of Rs.6.22 crores. After the approval, NIC expeditiously designed, developed and implemented the software package. The entire implementation action plan was carried out in two phases. First phase targeted the computerisation of four secretariat treasuries and in the second phase, District treasuries were taken into the action purview. At present , 20 District Treasuries are fully operational with on-line computerised treasury systems and another 20 Districts are on the way.
The salient features of the on-line treasury information system developed by NIC include the ability to handle all validation checks, latest data security features, restriction on any fraudulent withdrawals, generation of regular reports and exception reports etc.
NIC Bihar Unit has been regularly involved in carrying out major computerization projects for the State Finance Deptt. The entire State budget was computerized and released on a CD-ROM by the NIC Unit. A Fully equipped Finance Data Centre has also been set up by NIC and it hopes that very soon, every District Treasury will have a hook-up to the Finance Data Centre through the VSAT.
The State authorities have widely acknowledged the support and co-operation extended by NIC Bihar in taking the State ahead in terms of technology.
Utilization of Computers at Treasury Bihar