ipas or aims
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HREmployee Profile
Appointment DetailsPersonal / Family Details
Payroll Salary, Loans / Advances, Allowances & RecoveriesAnnual Increments Income Tax Bonus DA Arrear Supplementary Bills
Service Record Promotion / Demotion Transfer / Retirement
SeniorityLeaveSettlement
• Leave Salary •GIS •DCRG
Traveling AllowanceQuarters & Electricity CadreLoans & Advances
FINANCEInternal Check
C06 GenerationBill PassingC07 GenerationAbstract PreparationCheque Printing
Books
PF
Pension
Cash & Pay
Suspense
Budget
Traffic Accounts
Advantages over PRIME/AFRES
Functional: Centralized Architecture-> Real Time
Information of any micro/ macro level can beprovided.
Uniform application -> all the business rulesand Compliance of any rules/circular of Board(such as DA Arrear, Bonus etc.) can be madespeedily.
Technical Web based Application -> doesn’t require any
client software on end-users’ PCs.High Availability (24*7) as all the servers have
been clustered to run in fail-over mode with load balancing through Hardware Load Balancers
Centralized maintenance and management of Infrastructure (Application Software, Hardware & Systems Software)
Disaster Recovery of critical applications such as Integrated Payroll & Accounting Systems (IPAS).
Security:Encryption of data so that any transaction of
IPAS including passwords of users can not behacked.
Role based access to the end users backed byAudit trails to monitor the changes made byany user including Administrators
No access of database has been given toanyone for security reasons.
Ease of Use: Reduced navigations since Inter-related data capturing
screens have been merged into single screen Steps for salary processing have been merged The salary and income tax processing can be done by
respective bill clerks. Salary Bill passing screen has enriched functionality
now. The screen comparesallowances/recoveries/allocations with that of previousmonth for individual employee to check. In addition,variations are shown in red colour. Moreover, the userhas been provided all the information required forpassing the salary bill.
Transfer of employees – no need for physical movement of records relating toservice data viz. service card, LPC, leave account etc
financial data viz.PF/ NPS, loans etc.
{Mere change of Bill Unit of the employee would enable the new Unit to access his entire data}
Link with PF module to account repayments of PF loans through MCR.
Aids in serving Railway Employees
KEY BENEFITS TO EMPLOYEES
Access to the following over the internet Bio-data Service particulars Pay & allowances Provident Fund/ NPS Leave particulars Loans & Advances Income Tax liabilities
{Mobile App. for employee self service on the anvil}
Future roll outsInterface/ Integration of the Accounts modules of IPAS
with Other Applications Traffic Account Module with PRS/FOIS/UTS for earnings. MMIS with Stores bills enabling cheques through IPAS. Works Register Module with IRPSM to monitor plan head –
wise, source – wise, work-wise expenditures RBCS (Rail Budget Compilation System) with IRPSM and Works
Register Module to aid budget estimations & reviews. Crew Management System (CMS) for allowances of running
staff with payroll. ARPAN (Pension software) for early settlement of Pension
cases
Thus IPAS,
a Web enabled application riding on a 3-tier centralizedarchitecture
based on Java front end and Oracle back end
enables a common application to all the Railways
in adopting similar automated processes
with faster change management facilities
leading to better efficiency, security and safety
with real time access to financial transaction data acrossvarious macro & micro levels of IR
paves the way for improved financial and fiscal disciplineand HR activities
Thank You