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TGK to implement egovernance solution in PAOs

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Rahul Gupta

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NEW DELHI: The Centre has started implementing egovernance solutions at its

ministries. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has started computerization of its

Principal Accounts Offices (PAOs) ever since the finance minister’s

announcement that egovernance project in his departments would go on till March

2002.

As information technology is becoming a strategic resource to the government

accounts, computerization of PAO offices had been one of the priority areas. TGK

India, an IT systems company bagged the contract in June this year for

implementation of a solution called PAO-2000 in 108 PAOs. The cost of this

project is around Rs 30 lakh.

MoF has to computerize 289 PAOs under 32 civil ministries all over India. TGK

has got a contract to implement PAO-2000 developed by the NIC, by March 2002 in

108 PAOs in Delhi alone. The solution helps in capturing accounts data from the

original source.

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As the deadline is closing in, the task seems difficult for TGK. Sanjay

Singh, general manager, TGK India, said, "Although we were told to complete

the job by March 2002, it is almost impossible to do so as implementing and

testing are a time-taking process. Also, the functioning of government

departments is entirely different from that of corporate."

He said that many ministries did not have hardware and software required to

implement the solution. "It's impossible to complete it before December

2002." he insisted.

TGK has also been entrusted with the task of implementing, training,

computerizing and supporting the 108 PAOs. The company would implement them in

35 locations in its first phase of operation. It would also provide technical

support for PAO-2000 for different sites that includes the system support for

Windows 2000/NT and databases support for relational database management

systems.

PAO-2000 generates monthly, consolidated accounts data in the electronic

format for in-corporation at the Principal Accounts Office in the CONTACT

software database. CONTACT software consolidates accounts daily or weekly, on a

preset frequency.

It also generates various managerial reports for expenditure analysis. One of

the most important features of this software is the generation of cheques for

payment on pre-printed stationery issued by the RBI.

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