The Central Plan Scheme Monitoring System (CPSMS) is one of
the recent initiatives of this organisation and CGA is responsible
for its design and implementation. CPSMS has been envisaged
as a comprehensive expenditure tracking system for central
plans schemes that, apart from enhancing transparency and
accountability, will have far reaching implications for public
financial management in the country. The Scheme aims at
establishing an integrated financial information system for over
1000 plan schemes being administered by different ministries of
the central government. It involves bringing together thousands
of sub-national, local implementing agencies, individual
beneficiaries and bank branches that have till now, not been
amenable to a central monitoring system.
The organisation has been able to leverage its core capability and
experience in developing a web-enabled application that enables
single point registration of implementing agencies, monitoring
of fund flow from the central government to the implementing
agencies, reconciliation with accounting data and generation of
customized reports for the program managers on sources and use
of funds. The process of implementation has been completed at
the Union government level and the application is able to report
on disbursements to regional and local governments under
individual plan schemes on a real time basis. These reports are
now available on the CPSMS website http://cpsms.nic.in and
have been widely appreciated by the program managers.
The scope of CPSMS is being extended, technical feasibility
studies have been carried out to understand the fund flow up
to the grass root level and expenditure reporting has been
introduced for selected schemes. CPSMS and Core Banking
System interface has also been developed for interchange of
data and is progressively being deployed for agency banks to
enable tracking of plan funds on a real time basis.