Finance Department extends E-salary system for monthly payments

by Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, DEC 4

Haryana Finance Department has extended the e-salary system to draw monthly payments required to be made to contractuals, contractuals providing professional services, part time workers, contractuals with DA, Monthly Ex-gratia payment to family of deceased employee, guest lecturer and apprentice.

            While giving this information here today, a spokesman of the department said that with effect from December 15, 2012, it would be compulsory to submit bills for persons of these categories through e-salary system only and Treasuries would not be accepting any manual bills in relation to them.

            He said that  e-salary system  had been fully functional from April 1 this year and it had been made compulsory for all drawing and disbursing officers to submit salary bills of government employees through this system. Now, the department had created a facility in e-salary system to allow passing of salary bills in those cases where General Provident Fund (GPF) or Permanent Retirement Account Number (PRAN) was yet to be allotted.  All salary bills of government employees would now be submitted through e-salary system only and no manual bill would be accepted by the treasury.  

       He said that in case of employees where GPF or PRAN was not allotted, the system would allow passing of salary bills for two months. However after that, the system would not allow passing of salary bills unless GPF or PRAN was entered in the system. It had been made the responsibility of the concerned Drawing and Disbursing Officer (DDO) to ensure that GPF or PRAN was got allotted within this period so as to avoid any inconvenience to the employee. Facility had already been provided to DDOs to view PRAN of any employee to get details of rejected PRAN application on the e-salary website. They could ascertain PRAN of the employee by entering the requisite details. In case of more than one employee, the same name verification of correct PRAN could be done on the basis of date of birth and date of joining.

          He said that the DDOs need not insist on having a photocopy of the PRAN card from the employee. The DDOs should also ensure that arrear of New Pension System contribution for the period prior to month for which deduction was made for the first time was also calculated and same was also uploaded as regular contribution for that specific month.