Two days training on ‘ ’ module held for Itanagar and Pasighat Municipal Council from 23 to 24 July, 2014.

Two days training on ‘Accrual based Accounting’ module, under the e-Municipality applications Suite, based on NMAM (National Municipal Accounting Manual) was organized at Itanagar Municipal Council office, Naharlagun on 23rd and 24th July, 2014. The application has been developed by NIC, Pune for implementation in Urban Local bodies of Arunachal Pradesh. The pilots have been rolled out at Itanagar (Papum Pare district) and Pasighat (East Siang district) Municipal Council offices. The training was imparted by Mrs. ANJALI BEMBALKAR, Scientist-D, NIC, Pune. Shri PORAS R. DESHMUKH, Technical Director, NIC, Pune, Coordinator for Department of Town Planning & ULBs, GoAP’s ‘eNagar yojana’ was also present in the training. The training was facilitated by the Department of Town Planning & ULBs, GoAP with technical support and resource faculty from NIC Pune & NIC State Center Arunachal Pradesh.

The training got underway on 23rd July, 2014 with a welcome speech by Sh. Sukhvinder Singh, Sr. Town Planner, Department of Town Planning & ULBs, GoAP. Shri Poras Deshmukh, TD gave an outline & objectives of the proposed training to the participants. The participants from Itanagar and Pasighat Municipal Council offices included the following:

Sl. No. Designation

Itanagar Municipal Council 1. Finance and Accounts Officer 2. Administrative Officer 3. Accountant 4. Assistant 5. Assistant Town Planner 6. Clerk 7. Two representatives of consultant of DTP office Pasighat Municipal Council 1. Municipal Secretary 2. Upper Division Clerk 3. Accountant 4. Assistant Engineer

‘Accrual based Accounting’ application is role based software, which has been deployed presently at NDC, Pune. During the training, functionalities of Administrator, DDO and Date Entry Operator (Accountant / Clerk) were shown online. Following topics were covered in the training:

1. Fund. 2. Function. 3. Sub-Function. 4. Fund Function Mapping with Budget. 5. Major Head. 6. Minor Head. 7. Detailed Head. 8. Detailed Sub-Head. 9. Masters Entry.

10. JV Voucher. 11. Contra Voucher. 12. Receipt Voucher. 13. Payment Voucher. 14. Voucher Updation. 15. Payment Liability. 16. Checklist. 17. Posting by DDO. 18. Book of Accounts

(which has various reports).

The focus of the training was to acquaint the participants with role-wise functionality of the application. The participants took keen interest in the hands-on sessions and did entry of actual data of financial year 2013-2014. It was also decided that the participants shall be allowed to the test the application with actual data of financial year 2013-2014 till 15-Aug-2014 and feedback, if any, should be shared with NIC, Pune. From 16-Aug-2104, both Itanagar and Pasighat Municipal Councils can on do live entry of data of financial year 2014-2015.

Glimpses of the of two days training programme

(Ms. Anjali Bembalkar addressing a query)

(Hands-on session day#1)

(Hands-on session day#1)

(Hands-on session day#2)

(in the picture: Ms. Anjali Bembalkar and Sh. Poras Deshmukh)

(in the picture: Sh. Jyotish Roy(SIO), Sh. Poras Deshmukh(TD) Ms. Anjali Bembalkar(Scientist-D)

Sh. Debasish Nath(TD), Sh. Amujao P. (STA-B) and participants)

Report Prepared by: Sh. Debasish Nath, TD & Project Coordinator Sh. Amujao P., STA-B, Team Member