Operationalization of NSAP software
In order to make the software
operational successfully, the details about the pension disbursement authority
(PDA) is required to be provided for each beneficiary belonging to urban and
rural area under each scheme of NSAP namely IGNOAPS, IGNDPS and IGNWPS. Pension
is disbursed to the beneficiaries, through a PDA, periodically, as per the
guidelines of the State / availability of funds.
There are 3 types of PDA
1. Bank Branch
2. Post Office Branch
3. Cash Disbursing Authority
A PDA is associated with any of the four modes of disbursements :-
1.
Bank
Account
2.
Post
Office Account
3.
Cash
4.
Post
Office Money Order
PDA may be created at State level,
District level, Sub district (Rural) or Municipal (Urban) level, Gram Panchayat (Rural) or Ward (Urban) level depending upon the
requirement.
Given below is the procedure to be followed to make the
software operational
Step 1. Create a new PDA
In order to create a new
Bank PDA,
Click
Masters ->
Bank Branch Master ->
Add
Create a Bank Branch
Enter the Bank Branch
code and address
Select the corresponding
Sub District / Gram Panchayat / Village or
Municipality / Ward for pension disbursement. Following screen will be required
to be completed to create the Bank Branch
In order to create a new Post
office PDA,
Click
Masters ->
Post Office Branch Master ->
Add
Rest of the procedure of
creating a new PDA for post office will be same as Bank Branch PDA.
In order to create a new Cash
PDA,
Click
Masters ->
Cash Master ->
Add
Rest of the procedure of
creating a new PDA for Cash will be same as Bank Branch PDA.
Step 2. Link PDA with the beneficiary
After creating the PDA
for banks, Post office and Cash, it is mandatory to link the PDA with every beneficiary
under each scheme for the disbursement of pension.
Click Identification ->
Legacy
->
Modify
Select appropriate
entries and find the beneficiary who is to be linked to the PDA
Click Modify to go to the
Application form for Legacy data
Scroll down to
Disbursement Details
Select
the disbursement mode
Enter the account no (in
case of Bank and Post Office Account modes of disbursement)
Click on Search button appearing
on the right side of PDA Code as shown in the screen above. A new window to
Select PDA appears,
as shown
below, for selection of PDA
“Submit” after selection
so that the PDA code is automatically generated and beneficiary is linked to
the PDA.
Step 3. Compute pension payable to
beneficiaries
In order to disburse the
pension to the beneficiaries, it is mandatory to compute the pension of a sub
district / municipality or of a gram panchayat / ward.
Click
Disbursement ->
Compute Pension payable to pensioner
Following
screen shows how area is selected. All Gram Panchayat
can be selected. Select “Pension Amount Payable Upto”
month and year to compute pension to be paid to the pensioners up to “Month”
and “Year”.
Sample
given below is of
Note : Where the “disbursement up to”
field in the legacy data is not entered, the default date taken is 31st
March 2008.
Note : Where the “disbursement up to”
field in the legacy data is not entered, the default date taken is 31st
March 2008.
Note: Gram Panchayat wise list and their total will be listed. Printout
may be
Taken for the checklist verification
before generating the acquaintance roll
of pensioners.
Click
Compute to
Step4. Sanction of funds
After computation of
pension payable to the pensioner, it is mandatory to allocate and release the
fund received from the Ministry and by State government to districts and sub
districts in order to generate the Acquaintance roll of pensioners. For this
Use Allocation -> Release fund by State Finance
Detail entry of fund received from the State Finance Department
Use Allocation -> District Allocation
Detail entry of fund allocated to
districts after fund released by Ministry and State Finance Department
Use Allocation -> District Release
Detailed
entry of fund released to districts after fund allocation for the districts
Use Allocation -> Sub District Allocation
Detail entry of fund allocated to sub
districts
Use Allocation -> Sub District Release
Release
of the fund to sub districts
Step5. Generation
of acquaintance roll of pensioners
After computing the pension of
beneficiaries, user are required to generate the acquaintance roll of
beneficiaries for the cross verification as Use Disbursement ->
Print Payable pension
Step6. Transferring of funds.
While transferring of the
fund to the concern PDA for the disbursing the
pension either through Bank, Post Office of
Cash, the details of amount being transferred to each PDA is to be entered and
update. For this option
Use
Disbursement -> Transfer Fund
Step7. Update
disbursement ledger
Once the required fund
has been transferred to concern PDA, it is
Mandatory
to update the disbursement ledger after transferring funds to the PDAs. For
this Use Disbursement -> Update
Disbursement Ledger
It is important to update the
pensioner’s ledger regularly so that the actual disbursement of pension to
beneficiaries can be monitored through the software.