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