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Delhi, Aug 30: The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has undergone a
major digital transformation enabling payments worth Rs 20,000-crore per year
electronically. This has been done by networking all the 400 field offices of
CPWD across the country through a special integrated portal ensuring digital
payments from this month. With this, CPWD has become the first organisation of
a civil ministry to become digital at the field level. CPWD executes over
25,000 project works across the country involving annual payments of over Rs
20,000-crore every year by it’s 400 field offices including in remote, hilly
and North-Eastern parts. The new digital payment mode covers over six-lakh
transactions, an official from Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said
today. The Office of Chief Controller of Accounts (CCA) of the Ministry of
Housing and Urban Affairs has evolved this special Public Financial Management
(PFMS) Portal for CPWD. During a demonstration of this online payment system to
HUA Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra, Mr Shyam Dubey, CCA explained that it
enables real time monitoring of expenditure in respect of each of the 25,000
projects across the country. Since fund release is linked to progress of works,
digital payments also ensures efficient utilisation of funds, he said. In yet
another initiative, electronic Measurement Book (e-MB) has also been developed
for CPWD that enables reporting of progress of works online as per the schedule
of agreement with contractors based on which payments will be made. e-MB has
been made mandatory from the first of next month doing away with manual
reporting by all the 400 field offices. Mr Durga Shanker Mishra directed CPWD
and CCA to further ensure geo-tagging of physical progress of works for
effective monitoring. PFMS is an end-to-end solution for electronic processing
payments, tracking fund flow, monitoring, accounting, reconciliation and
reporting, etc. PFMS has been adopted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs since October, 2015 by which the allocation of Rs 34,000-crore has been
transferred electronically. With CPWD now going digital, the volume of
e-payments of the Ministry and CPWD would be about Rs 60,000-crore during
2017-18. Since CPWD has a separate scheme of delegation of functions and financial
powers, it required a special PFMS e-module for online transactions. UNI
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