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through a software “PRIASoft” to know the balance of fund available in
each tier of PRI in all the schemes. Scheme-wise monthly availability of
fund at each tier was placed in the public domain. The month ending
analysis of fund flow gave a broad picture of the utilisation of fund under
different schemes/programs during the month. As it was not possible to
capture information on daily financial transaction, this application was
not very much useful from the point of view of accounting and auditing
purpose. However, this experiment gave us the confidence to move to
the next level of automation of PRI accounts.
After lot of brainstorming at the Department level, it was decided to
implement one Accounting Software customised to the requirement of
Panchayati Raj Institutions at the level of Zilla Parishad and Panchayat
Samiti placing the strong manpower and infrastructure.
In the year 2004, Xavier Institute of Management(XIMB),
Bhubaneswar which is a leading Management Institute in the State and
has been declared as Centre of Excellence came up with proposal to
develop an application tailor-made for maintaining the accounts of Zilla
Parishad and Panchayat Samiti. With constant support and feedback
from the functionaries of Panchayat Raj Department, Finance
Department and Auditor General of Orissa the software development
team of XIM made an attempt to devise an accounting software
application for generating computerised cashbook based on double-entry
accounting system. The Software Application which was developed using
Oracle Database (Oracle-9i) as RDBMS was given the acronym of PAMIS
(Panchayat Accounting Management Information System). To begin with
the application was deployed in standalone computer systems in all Zilla
Parishad (Zilla Panchayat) and Panchayat Samitis (Block Panchayat) in
the year 2004-05. From 1 st of July,2007, the PAMIS generated cash book
was made mandatory and declared as the official cashbook of Zilla
Parishad and Panchayat Samiti with executive instruction from
Panchayati Raj Department, Government of Orissa which could capture
each financial transaction and resulted in accurate maintenance of
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