TREASURY COMPUTERIZATION IN HIMACHAL PRADESH

A job well done, wins appreciation. And the quality of work done by the National Informatics Centre is judged, to a large extent, by the level of satisfaction of the User. What the Chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh, Mr MS Mukherjee has to say on the implementation of DISNIC-Treasury in the State speaks volumes for the extent of effectiveness of the Project. Accolades brings to you an extract of the Chief Secretary's foreword to the "Report on DISNIC-Treasury" published by the NIC Himachal Pradesh State Unit.

Expenditure and Receipts of the State Government are either transacted through, or accounted for, by the Treasuries in all the districts of Himachal Pradesh. The number and volume of transactions are so huge that it is an obvious area for development of an efficient Computerized Information System, so that timely information is made available to the decision makers for monitoring purposes and for taking policy decisions. For the last one-and-a-half years, the H.P. State Unit of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and the Department of Treasuries and Accounts of the State Government have been working in close collaboration in developing a computer software for financial transactions at the Treasuries, running it on trial basis and making modifications where necessary. This effort has culminated in DISNIC-TREASURY, a comprehensive computer-based Management Information System on Financial Transactions of the State Government, which has been implemented in all the District Treasuries of Himachal Pradesh. To my knowledge, this is the first time such a comprehensive computer package, which goes well beyond compilation of figures to generation of reports and management information for its Users, has been developed and implemented in any State of India...

The State Government is proud of the DISNIC-TREASURY system and I place on record my thanks to all those who have put in so much effort in its development and its acceptability and implementation, and my appreciation for the computer software developed by the NIC Himachal Pradesh State Unit.