The state finance ministry has decided to implement e-khazana, which facilitates electronic audit and payment system for the treasury functions of the state government this fiscal onwards.

While a core module is being implemented up to all the 23 district treasury offices, employee- and salary-wise details under a new project are to be incorporated. Further, the government is superimposing a pension module on the project.

Under this project, it is proposed to integrate computer applications in various wings of the finance department with the office of the accountant general, the Reserve Bank of India and other departments, including district collectorates.

Under this, all sub-systems and core treasury and pay-and-accounts functions will be brought under a unified centralised system in a relational database management project, say government sources.

Following this, the treasury management is expected to be transparent and cater to the need of all treasury and pay-and-accounts applications. By web-enabling this system and building appropriate security safeguards, the government will also bring in the much-needed transparency and eliminate ad hoc decisions, the sources add.

In a similar initiative partnering Tata Consultancy Services and the state government have embarked on the SmartGov project that seeks to make the whole of the secretariat a paperless electronic office.