The government of India has marked an important milestone in strengthening technology-enabled and citizen-centric governance with the signing of an agreement for adoption of System for Accounting and Management of Pension (SAMPANN), the flagship digital pension and financial management platform of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), by the state government of Goa and the Cochin Port Authority (CPA).
SAMPANN is a seamless online comprehensive pension management system developed in line with the vision of the government’s Digital India Mission and covers the entire pension administration lifecycle, from case initiation to pension disbursement and accounting. It is a cloud-based, end-to-end pension management system of the DoT, managed by the office of the Controller General of Communication Accounts. It was designed to streamline pension sanction, authorisation, accounting and payment through a single digital platform.
The adoption of SAMPANN by the state government of Goa and the CPA is expected to further the objective of modern, accountable and citizen-centric governance through reuse of proven national digital platforms.
Commenting on the occasion, the minister of communications and development of north eastern region, said, “SAMPANN is now disbursing an average of Rs 16.50 billion of monthly pension and total amount of about Rs 720 billion has already been disbursed through it. He emphasised the change in governance approach under the prime minister where in now the governance revolves around citizens rather than in the previous times citizens used to run around government offices for public services”.
He further said, “DoT has today entered into an agreement with state government of Goa and the CPA to take this concept of service to the doors of citizens to other institutions.”
He congratulated government of Goa and CPA for on-boarding onto SAMPANN and thanked them for placing their trust in SAMPANN portal. He also instructed department of posts (DoP) and DoT to work out the adoption of SAMPANN for the on-boarding of DoP pensioners.
The minister of communications also released the SAMPANN coffee table book, highlighting the growing role of digital public infrastructure in delivering seamless, transparent and efficient public services.
Emphasising on the government’s resolve to the nation building, he added, “I am very confident that as we move forward, the prime minister’s resolve of Service before Self, resolve of Nation First, resolve of Atma Nirbharta and resolve of keeping our Tiranga aloft in the global community of Nations, we commit that every single one of us will adhere to and dedicate ourselves as we go on this journey from amrit kaal to shatabhdi kaal.”
