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