Office of the Controller
General of Accounts coming under Ministry of Finance has issued an import
office Memorandum for implementation of an online facility for all Central
Government Employees haing General Provident Fund (GPF) Account to get the
information regarding their GPF Accounts directly from Internet. The subscribers will be able to view the
current status of their request for GPF Withdrawal, Advances, Final Payment,
Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme (DLIS), and Transfer Out and balances,
etc. Presently this system available to
GPF Account holders coming under four PAOs of CISF, Ministry of Home Affairs
and PAO (NIC).
As a step towards
implementation this online GPF account information facility to all GPF Account
holders, CGA has instructed all PAOs to capture the PAN Number details of all
the GPF Accounts opened in their COMPACT database and also update their Date of
Birth, Date of Joining Govt. Service and Date of Superannuation so that the
multiple account numbers of a subscriber could be mapped and unique Id could be
allotted.
The text of detailed Office
Memorandum dated 14.09.2012 issued in this regard is reproduced as follows.
No.
ITD-CGA/07-11/GPF-MIDS/Pt. file III/
Ministry of Finance,
Department of Expenditure
Office of the Controller
General of Accounts
Lok Nayak Bhavan, Khan
Market
New Delhi — 110 003
(I.T. Division)
Office Memorandum
Dated September 14, 2012
As a part of mission towards
bringing transparency and strengthening the Information (GPF Module) System of
the O/O CGA, this office has decided to expand the e-Samarth application to all
PAOs of Civil Ministries, presently running in four PAOs of CISF, Mb o Home
Affairs and FAQ (NIC).
2. e-Samarth, a web-based
application, follows a very transparent approach in providing a comprehensive
resource of GPF-related information through a website open to all account
holders and accounting units. All account holders will be able to get the
information regarding their GPF accounts directly from internet. The
subscribers will be able to view the current status of their request for GPF
Withdrawal, Advances, Final Payment, Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme (DLIS),
and Transfer Out and balances, etc.
3. In the present system of
maintenance of GPF accounts, new account number is allotted to the subscriber
at the time of his first deduction towards GPF or at the time of his transfer
from one office to another either within Ministry or inter-Ministry, resulting
in holding of multiple account numbers by a subscriber with a possibility of
GPF credits scattered over different accounting Units. In such cases,
subscribers do not know what balance is lying in their accounts.
4. In e-Samarth application,
a subscriber can view his/her GPF details through a unique number only. It is
therefore mandatory to map all his/her existing account numbers through a
Unique Key. It has been decided that PAN (allotted by Income Tax Department)
would be treated as a Unique Key to map all the account numbers allotted to a
subscriber.
5. It is, therefore,
compulsory for all the PAOs to first capture the PAN Number details of all the
GPF Accounts opened in their COMPACT database and also update their Date of
Birth, Date of Joining Govt. Service and Date of Superannuation so that the
multiple account numbers of a subscriber could be mapped and unique Id could be
allotted. A new upgrade of COMPACT is available at www.pao2000.nic.in. All the
PAOs have to upgrade their COMPACT before capturing this information. In order
to further facilitate in data entry, a separate off-line utility has also been
available at www.pao2000.nic.in. A User-guide for the utility is attached as
annexure-1.
6. It is therefore requested
to instruct all the PAOs under your control to obtain PAN number and update
Account Allotment General Information of all the subscribers under their
control latest by 5th October, 2012 so that multiple account numbers of a
subscriber could be mapped and unique IDs could be issued to all the Account
Holders.
Sd/-
(Alok Kumar Verrna)
Asstt. Controller General of
Accounts (ITD)
