Finance Dept, Govt of Bihar-e-KHAZANA

Earlier, various activities of the Government of Bihar's Finance Department,

like budget preparation, treasury accounting, and Provident Fund subscribers'

account slip generation were manual. It was difficult to monitor the expenditure

and receipts at the Finance Department. The treasuries' accounting was delayed

by 16-24 months in sending monthly accounts. To solve all these and more

problems, NIC developed an in-house project called e-khazana. The project

automated the entire revenue administration, from budgeting to expenditure

monitoring through treasuries, by capturing each transaction of payment and

receipt with required validations. It also automated activities of the PF

offices. It captures all the transactions related to subscription, refund, and

advances towards PF accounts. With this project, there is no duplication of data

and fraudulent withdrawals can easily be checked through the centralized DDO

code.

Post implementation of the project, all the treasuries send their monthly

accounts by the 5th of every month. Once the data is received at the NIC server,

various MIS reports are prepared for the Finance Department. These MIS reports

provide great help to the Finance Commissioner and budget officers for budget

preparation and in other decision making. e-KHAZANA has been implemented in 41

treasuries and 17 sub-treasuries of the Government of Bihar. In automation, 10

to 12 clients were deployed at each treasury and four to five clients were

deployed at each



sub-treasury.