ASPIRe (Assam State Public Finance Institutional Reforms) aims to improve efficiency, ease of doing business and transparency in its Public Financial Management, has commenced with preparation of a World Bank funded project
Broad Project Scope (Components)
Component 1:
Institutional Strengthening, Reforms & Capacity Building Includes:
- Review of finance dept, its organization, role of FA's in line departments and cadre review of various finance cadres, treasury & finance rules; twinning & partnerships with national PFM institutes;
- Strengthening Budget Management Processes i.e strengthening preparation process, resource estimation, budget allocation, re-appropriation and execution and budget transparency;
- Strengthening Cash & Debt Management Capacity and systems;
- Procurement policy and e-procurement scale up including data analytics
- Review of PPP Framework and institutional strengthening;
- LFAD – framework for outsourcing model and pilots.
Component 2:
Expenditure Management: Treasury Modernization and Treasury:
- New IT systems for Treasury (FMIS) and Excise (software application development, implementation, maintenance and hardware procurement, including networking, change management and capacity building);
- PFMS scale up in selected departments (Education, RDD and Health)
Component 3:
Revenue Systems Strengthening: Excise and Commercial taxes:
- E-Governance solution for Excise Dept (software application development, implementation and maintenance and hardware procurement, including networking,change management and capacity building);
- Upgrade of existing application software in CTD incl. hardware upgrade; institutional strengthening of CTD and readiness for GST
Component 4:
Project Management
