Historically, Integrated Financial management System (IFMS) was introduced in West Bengal on 1st April, 2014. Three modules, namely, (1) e-Bantan, (2) e-Billing and (3) e-Pradan were rolled out in quick succession.
e-Bantan: e-Bantan takes care of the distribution of funds against the subordinate offices/grantee institutions under the control of the Government.
e-Billing: e-Billing is the system of electronic submission of claims from the DDO’s end
e-Pradan: e-Pradan module takes care with direct transfer/payment of claims to beneficiaries' bank account.
For all these module there is a separate Login Id and Password for each Drawing and Disbursing Officer (DDO).
From 1st April, 2017, another module named Hunan Resource Management System (HRMS) came into operation for overall management of disbursement of salary of teaching and non-teaching staff of the college.
At present, all the 4 sub-modules of IFMS, namely (1) e-Bantan, (2) e-Billing, (3) e-Pradan, and (4) HRMS are in use for the overall management of payment/disbursement salary, arrear salary, bonus, Leave Encashment proceeds, withdrawal of Provident Fund proceeds etc.
In addition, a host of services can be mobilized through IFMS-HRMS such as: