NewDelhi: The governments construction major, Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has undergone a major digital transformation enabling payments worth Rs 20,000 crore per year electronically.
An official of housing and urban affairs ministry said 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 organization of a civil ministry to become digital at the field level, the official said.
CPWD executes over 25,000 project works across the country involving annual payments of over Rs 20,000 crore every year by its 400 field offices including in remote, hilly and North-Eastern parts. The new digital payment mode covers over six lakh transactions. The Office of Chief Controller of Accounts (CCA) of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has evolved this special Public Financial Management (PFMS) Portal for CPWD.
During a demonstration of this online payment system to urban affairs secretary Duga Shanker Mishra, Secretary (HUA), the CCA said 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 utilization of funds, the CCA said.
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