SYSTEM - Contributory Pension Scheme-Transfer of contributions to the subscribers accounts-Reviewed-Adoption of Centralized mode- Orders Issued. GO Ms. No. 82 FINANCE (HR.III-Pension, GPF) DEPARTMENT Dated:22/06/2023
Read the following:
1. In the GO. 5th read above, detailed instructions are issued by the Government regarding modalities for furnishing details of the subscriber contributions under National Pensions Scheme (NPS) to the Central Record-Keeping Agency (CRA) & their transfer along with the matching contribution of the State to the NPS Trust. The aforementioned procedure is in a decentralized mode, whereby the Treasury Officers at district and sub-district level & the Pay & Accounts Officer at the State Head-quarters are the Nodal Officers for compiling and transmitting the data & also transfer of funds to NPS agencies. besides coordinating with the CRA for registration of subscribers & processing requests for intermediary withdrawal and the final exit.
2. The Government have reviewed the existing procedure with the Director of Treasuries & Accounts (DTA), with the specific objective of ensuring the timely transfer of the monthly contribution of each subscriber along with government contribution, & it is observed that the existing decentralized procedure involves multiplicity of transactions resulting in avoidable delays & therefore the DTA has proposed adoption of a centralized mode
3 Government, after the careful examination of the proposal of the DTA, and in supersession of the orders issued vide the G.O.Ms. No. 196, Finance (Pension-1) Department, dated 24-07-2012 hereby order that contributions of the employees & the matching share of the Government shall be transferred to the PRAN accounts of the employees maintained by the NPS Trust, as per the procedure detailed below, in a centralized mode at the state level, with immediate effect.
A. For Employees working in regular Government Departments
(a) The CFMS server shall capture data of employee NPS subscriptions arising out of pay bills paid on previous day, auto-populate government contribution & transmit the combined data to CRA server on the 06th, 11th &16th of every Month.
(b) The CRA server either accepts or rejects the data. If accepted, the Transaction ID is generated by CRA. If rejected, the CRA furnishes an error report to CFMS server. The erroneous data shall be sent to the log-in of DTA for rectification.
(c) For all paid salary bills. the employee subscription shall automatically get reflected in the NPS Employees Subscription PD A/c: 8342001170104001001VN - 27030702002 operated by the DTA.
(d) For all successful Transaction IDs, an adjustment bill will be automatically generated for transfer of the Employee subscription to the NPS pooled PD A/c for each successful Transaction ID, ie, from 8342001170104001001VN - 27030702002 to 8342001171104001002VN - 27030702002 and will be displayed in the maker log- in of DTA as per work-flow. The DTA shall authorize the claim.
(e) Simultaneously, for all the successful Transaction IDs, an adjustment bill will be generated automatically for the matching Government contribution from HOA 2071011170004320321VN 27000702001 to the NPS pooled PD A/c: 8342001171104001002VN - 27030702002, and will be displayed in the maker Log-in of DTA, as per work-flow The DTA shall submit this bill to Pay and Accounts Office for adjustment to NPS Pooled PD A/c: 8342001171104001002VN-27030702002 operated by DTA
(f) After the successful adjustment of funds to the NPS pooled PD A/c: 8342001171104001002VN - 27030702002, the CFMS server auto generates the cash bill from PD A/c: 8342001171104001002VN-27030702002 & display the same in the Maker Log-in of the DTA. The DTA shall approve the bill for payment directly to the NPS Trust Account (Benf. Code: 1009363246). The auto-generated bill shall have the Transaction ID, which will facilitate the RBI e- kuber for seamless transfer of amount to NPS Trust.
(g) The NPS Trust confirms successful credit of funds to CRA for each Transaction ID & in-turn, the CRA shall auto-update the status of Transaction ID in CRA server & the same will be communicated to the DTA through mail on the next working day.
(h) For the rejected records, the DTA shall attend to rectify the errors pointed-out by CRA within (7) working days Once the errors are rectified by the DTA, the rectified records will be pushed to CRA server along with Government contribution, by the CFMS server. for generation of Transaction ID. The remaining procedure will remain the same as mentioned above.
B: For Employees working on Foreign Service (FS) terms and conditions
(a) The NPS contributions (both employee & employer) of the employees working on Foreign Service terms and conditions, will be remitted through challans to the HOAS 8342001171304001001VN (employee share) & 8342001171304001002VN (employer share), as per the existing procedure.
(b) The above remittances will be reflected against PD A/c of the DTA, which is exclusively for this purpose
(c) The CFMS server shall captures the data of employee subscriptions and employer contribution arising out of the paid challans and submit the combined CPS data to the CRA server on 11th of every month.
(d) The CRA server either accepts or rejects the data. If accepted, the Transaction ID is generated by CRA. If rejected, the CRA server furnishes the error report to the CFMS server. The erroneous data shall be sent to the log-in of DTA for rectification.
(e) The CFMS server shall push the data again to CRA server for error-free records duly omitting the data that has errors The CRA server generates the Transaction ID for the successful data.
(f) For all the successful Transaction IDs, an adjustment bill will be automatically generated for transfer of employee subscription to the NPS pooled PD A/c for each successful Transaction ID. ie.. from 8342001171304001001VN 27030702005 to 8342001171304001002VN - 27030702005 and will be displayed in the maker log-in of DTA as per work-flow. The DTA shall auto authorize the claim.
(g) After the successful adjustment of funds to NPS pooled PD A/c: 8342001171304001002VN 27030702005, the CFMS server shall generate the cash bill from the PD A/c: 8342001171304001002VN 27030702005 and will be displayed in the Maker Log-in of DTA, as per work- flow. The DTA shall approve the bill for payment directly to the NPS Trust Account (Benf. Code: 1009363246). The auto-generated bill shall have the Transaction ID, which will facilitate the RBI e-kuber for seamless transfer of amount to NPS Trust.
(h) The NPS Trust shall confirm the successful credit of the funds to the CRA on each Transaction ID, & in-turn, the CRA auto-update the status of Transaction ID in the CRA server; and the same was communicated to the DTA through mail on next working day.
(i) For the rejected records, the DTA shall attend to rectify the errors pointed-out by CRA within (7) working days. Once the errors are rectified by the DTA, the rectified records will be pushed to CRA server along with Government contribution, by the CFMS server, for generation of Transaction ID. The remaining procedure will be remains same as mentioned above.
4 The DTA as the State Nodal Officer shall take necessary action to reconcile the outstanding balances as on issue of these orders towards the employee & government contribution with all Treasury officers; PAO, AP: PAO, AP Bhawan, New Delhi and PAO (W)s / APAO (W)s in the State, and to transfer to the PD A/c of DTA: 8342001170104001001VN 27030702002 (Employee Subscription) and 8342001171104001002VN 27030702002 (Government Contribution) by way of adjustment. The current account held by the Treasury Officers PAO shall continue to be operated only for the purpose of final settlements, i.e., (a.) Death Cases and(b.) Non-NPS Cases.
5. The DTA, as the State Nodal Officer, shall also issue the following directions to the Treasury Officers, PAO, AP and PAO, New Delhi.
7. The DTA shall take create a dedicated PMU for the smooth implementation of the aforesaid process.
8. The CEO, APCFSS shall make the necessary modifications in the CFMS software to enable the aforementioned changes and provide required MIS reports to the Director of Treasuries and Accounts and other officers concerned.
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CPS Transfer of contributions to the subscribers accounts GO 82 Dated 22/06/2023
SYSTEM - Contributory Pension Scheme-Transfer of contributions to the subscribers accounts-Reviewed-Adoption of Centralized mode- Orders Issued. GO Ms. No. 82 FINANCE (HR.III-Pension, GPF) DEPARTMENT Dated:22/06/2023Read the following:
- 1. GO Ms. No 653. Finance (Pension 1) Department, dated 22-09-2004.
- 2. GO Ms. No.654, Finance (Pension.1) Department, dated 22-09-2004.
- 3. GO Ms. No.655, Finance (Pension. I) Department, dated 22-09-2004.
- 4. GO Ms. No. 151. Finance (Pension. I) Department, dated 02-07-2007.
- 5. GO Ms. No. 196, Finance (Pension-1) Department, dated 24-07-2012.
- 6. GO Ms. No.250, Finance (Pension-1) Department, dated 06-09-2012.
- 7. GO Ms. No. 112, Finance (HRM-V Pensions) Department, dated 09-09-2015.
- 8. GO Ms. No. 145. Finance (Cash & Debt Management) Department, dated 08- 11-2019.
- 9. DTA File No FIN02-14058/2/2023-F SEC-DTA (Computer No: 2040689)
1. In the GO. 5th read above, detailed instructions are issued by the Government regarding modalities for furnishing details of the subscriber contributions under National Pensions Scheme (NPS) to the Central Record-Keeping Agency (CRA) & their transfer along with the matching contribution of the State to the NPS Trust. The aforementioned procedure is in a decentralized mode, whereby the Treasury Officers at district and sub-district level & the Pay & Accounts Officer at the State Head-quarters are the Nodal Officers for compiling and transmitting the data & also transfer of funds to NPS agencies. besides coordinating with the CRA for registration of subscribers & processing requests for intermediary withdrawal and the final exit.
2. The Government have reviewed the existing procedure with the Director of Treasuries & Accounts (DTA), with the specific objective of ensuring the timely transfer of the monthly contribution of each subscriber along with government contribution, & it is observed that the existing decentralized procedure involves multiplicity of transactions resulting in avoidable delays & therefore the DTA has proposed adoption of a centralized mode
3 Government, after the careful examination of the proposal of the DTA, and in supersession of the orders issued vide the G.O.Ms. No. 196, Finance (Pension-1) Department, dated 24-07-2012 hereby order that contributions of the employees & the matching share of the Government shall be transferred to the PRAN accounts of the employees maintained by the NPS Trust, as per the procedure detailed below, in a centralized mode at the state level, with immediate effect.
A. For Employees working in regular Government Departments
(a) The CFMS server shall capture data of employee NPS subscriptions arising out of pay bills paid on previous day, auto-populate government contribution & transmit the combined data to CRA server on the 06th, 11th &16th of every Month.
(b) The CRA server either accepts or rejects the data. If accepted, the Transaction ID is generated by CRA. If rejected, the CRA furnishes an error report to CFMS server. The erroneous data shall be sent to the log-in of DTA for rectification.
(c) For all paid salary bills. the employee subscription shall automatically get reflected in the NPS Employees Subscription PD A/c: 8342001170104001001VN - 27030702002 operated by the DTA.
(d) For all successful Transaction IDs, an adjustment bill will be automatically generated for transfer of the Employee subscription to the NPS pooled PD A/c for each successful Transaction ID, ie, from 8342001170104001001VN - 27030702002 to 8342001171104001002VN - 27030702002 and will be displayed in the maker log- in of DTA as per work-flow. The DTA shall authorize the claim.
(e) Simultaneously, for all the successful Transaction IDs, an adjustment bill will be generated automatically for the matching Government contribution from HOA 2071011170004320321VN 27000702001 to the NPS pooled PD A/c: 8342001171104001002VN - 27030702002, and will be displayed in the maker Log-in of DTA, as per work-flow The DTA shall submit this bill to Pay and Accounts Office for adjustment to NPS Pooled PD A/c: 8342001171104001002VN-27030702002 operated by DTA
(f) After the successful adjustment of funds to the NPS pooled PD A/c: 8342001171104001002VN - 27030702002, the CFMS server auto generates the cash bill from PD A/c: 8342001171104001002VN-27030702002 & display the same in the Maker Log-in of the DTA. The DTA shall approve the bill for payment directly to the NPS Trust Account (Benf. Code: 1009363246). The auto-generated bill shall have the Transaction ID, which will facilitate the RBI e- kuber for seamless transfer of amount to NPS Trust.
(g) The NPS Trust confirms successful credit of funds to CRA for each Transaction ID & in-turn, the CRA shall auto-update the status of Transaction ID in CRA server & the same will be communicated to the DTA through mail on the next working day.
(h) For the rejected records, the DTA shall attend to rectify the errors pointed-out by CRA within (7) working days Once the errors are rectified by the DTA, the rectified records will be pushed to CRA server along with Government contribution, by the CFMS server. for generation of Transaction ID. The remaining procedure will remain the same as mentioned above.
B: For Employees working on Foreign Service (FS) terms and conditions
(a) The NPS contributions (both employee & employer) of the employees working on Foreign Service terms and conditions, will be remitted through challans to the HOAS 8342001171304001001VN (employee share) & 8342001171304001002VN (employer share), as per the existing procedure.
(b) The above remittances will be reflected against PD A/c of the DTA, which is exclusively for this purpose
(c) The CFMS server shall captures the data of employee subscriptions and employer contribution arising out of the paid challans and submit the combined CPS data to the CRA server on 11th of every month.
(d) The CRA server either accepts or rejects the data. If accepted, the Transaction ID is generated by CRA. If rejected, the CRA server furnishes the error report to the CFMS server. The erroneous data shall be sent to the log-in of DTA for rectification.
(e) The CFMS server shall push the data again to CRA server for error-free records duly omitting the data that has errors The CRA server generates the Transaction ID for the successful data.
(f) For all the successful Transaction IDs, an adjustment bill will be automatically generated for transfer of employee subscription to the NPS pooled PD A/c for each successful Transaction ID. ie.. from 8342001171304001001VN 27030702005 to 8342001171304001002VN - 27030702005 and will be displayed in the maker log-in of DTA as per work-flow. The DTA shall auto authorize the claim.
(g) After the successful adjustment of funds to NPS pooled PD A/c: 8342001171304001002VN 27030702005, the CFMS server shall generate the cash bill from the PD A/c: 8342001171304001002VN 27030702005 and will be displayed in the Maker Log-in of DTA, as per work- flow. The DTA shall approve the bill for payment directly to the NPS Trust Account (Benf. Code: 1009363246). The auto-generated bill shall have the Transaction ID, which will facilitate the RBI e-kuber for seamless transfer of amount to NPS Trust.
(h) The NPS Trust shall confirm the successful credit of the funds to the CRA on each Transaction ID, & in-turn, the CRA auto-update the status of Transaction ID in the CRA server; and the same was communicated to the DTA through mail on next working day.
(i) For the rejected records, the DTA shall attend to rectify the errors pointed-out by CRA within (7) working days. Once the errors are rectified by the DTA, the rectified records will be pushed to CRA server along with Government contribution, by the CFMS server, for generation of Transaction ID. The remaining procedure will be remains same as mentioned above.
4 The DTA as the State Nodal Officer shall take necessary action to reconcile the outstanding balances as on issue of these orders towards the employee & government contribution with all Treasury officers; PAO, AP: PAO, AP Bhawan, New Delhi and PAO (W)s / APAO (W)s in the State, and to transfer to the PD A/c of DTA: 8342001170104001001VN 27030702002 (Employee Subscription) and 8342001171104001002VN 27030702002 (Government Contribution) by way of adjustment. The current account held by the Treasury Officers PAO shall continue to be operated only for the purpose of final settlements, i.e., (a.) Death Cases and(b.) Non-NPS Cases.
5. The DTA, as the State Nodal Officer, shall also issue the following directions to the Treasury Officers, PAO, AP and PAO, New Delhi.
- (a) Undertaking all remaining activities, viz, generation of PRAN partial withdrawals, superannuation /death withdrawals, ERM Operations, changes of personal details in PRAN, etc. at their end.
- (b) Remit all the legacy contributions of employees till 31-03-2023, along with their matching state shares, to respective individual pension accounts maintained by the CRA by 31-07-2023.
- (c) Ensure that the contributions deducted in a month shall be remitted into respective individual pension accounts maintained by CRA by 15th of the following month.
7. The DTA shall take create a dedicated PMU for the smooth implementation of the aforesaid process.
8. The CEO, APCFSS shall make the necessary modifications in the CFMS software to enable the aforementioned changes and provide required MIS reports to the Director of Treasuries and Accounts and other officers concerned.
