THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Government is all set to implement a Treasury Information Management (TRIM) system that is aimed at making the functioning of government treasuries more citizen-friendly.

More than 3.25 lakh senior citizens drawing their pension from State treasuries and 4.26 lakh persons having treasury savings bank and fixed deposit accounts are among those expected to benefit from the system that is being developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) here.

The NIC has already developed a voice guided touch screen information kiosk for 189 district and sub-treasuries in the State. The kiosk will enable citizens to access their pension and savings accounts through a password protected system. The facility will also be made available on the Internet. Citizens will be able to know their account details, pension arrears, commutation, gratuity payments, dues and transaction records at the touch of a button. An Interactive Voice Response System will enable citizens to know the status of their treasury accounts by making a telephone call.

TRIM is the second phase of the NIC-developed Treasury Information System (TIS) that enabled computerisation of treasury transactions in the State some years ago. The TIS online system has reduced the delay in transactions and has done away with separate counters for different transactions and ledgers and registers in 188 treasuries in Kerala.

The TIS features, which include a single window system for pension and automatic pension calculation, have to an extent helped eradicate long queues at treasuries. Nearly 7.98 lakh transactions under 45 different heads take place in State treasuries every month.

At present, the data pertaining to all transactions are available only in the computers of individual treasuries. The TRIM system proposes to network all treasuries so that the Government will be able to know the revenue and expenditure status at any point of time.

This will enable the Government to apply restriction or relaxation in the payment system, depending on the cash balance position. The system will also make functioning of self drawing officials (SDOs), government personnel having the authority to withdraw and disburse money, easy. Monthly reports generated from each treasury could be sent to the Accountant General's office for accounting and verification without delay.

The system will also enable the public to know the status of the bills presented in the treasury. Government employees could access any information or order from the Treasury Directorate or Finance Department by accessing the system in which all treasury data would be stored in a centralised server. The treasury staff will be able to quickly find out the details of government employees such as salary, pay fixation, Provident Fund, leave, etc. The TRIM project team is headed by Technical Director V. S. Reghunathan, Principal Systems Analyst M. Asir Edwin and Senior Systems Analyst A. Nisarudeen.

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