The Hindu Business Line : AG’s office set to offer services online

The Office of the Accountant General (A&E), Kerala, will soon make available online a series of services related to general provident fund (GPF) and pension to government employees.

The Accountant General, Mr V. Ravindran, said here on Tuesday that the office had embarked on an extensive computerisation programme over the past three years and the pension wing had been fully computerised now. The computerisation of the provident fund wing was set to be completed soon and beginning from August 1 this year, all final GPF withdrawal cases would be processed on computer, he said.

Mr Ravindran said that the computerised dak management programme to monitor the receipt and disposal of all letters would be available soon on the office Web site – www.agker.cag.gov.in – which would enable the public to know the status of their letters.

GPF ACCOUNTS

He said that his office had despatched the annual GPF accounts statements for the year 2008-09 to 3.85 lakh subscribers ahead of schedule by one-and-a-half month. As on March 1, 2009, the GPF balances with the Government were of the order of Rs 5,700 crore.

Also for the first time, the accounts of statements of 80 per cent of the subscribers were sent on compact discs (CDs) to around 6,500 Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs). The remaining subscribers were sent printed statements.