Friday, 30 March 2018

Public Financial Management System (PFMS)


Context: A “historic” Rs 71,633 crore was processed and routed through the PFMS portal on a single day. This is a Historical Record Breaking Volume of Digital Transactions achieved by PFMS.
What is PFMS ?
The Public Financial Management System (PFMS) is an end-to- end solution for processing payments, tracking, monitoring, accounting, reconciliation and reporting.
  • It is administered by the Department of Expenditure.
  • It is implemented by the Controller General of Accounts.

What is it does ?
  • It provides scheme managers a unified platform for tracking releases and monitoring their last mile utilisation.
  • It provides platform for efficient management of funds through tracking of funds and real time reporting of expenditure and receipts through treasury and bank interface.
  • The line ministries/departments utilise this platform to monitor the utilisation of funds provided to the implementing agencies and state governments.
  • PFMS is also used for DBT payments under MGNREGA and other notified schemes of the Government of India.

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