Soon Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) will become the first institution in State to go ‘Cashless’ completely. At present, 97 per cent work is done through various online mediums, yet the council aims to adopt cashless mode of transaction in other academic work as well that include registration, examination, verification, correction and duplicate certificate issue provisions to go ‘Cashless’ completely.
The examination conducting body has collaborated with Allahabad Bank to impart training to all the staffs of the council to adopt various online mediums. The first phase of training programme under the supervision of officials of Allahabad Bank focusing on several areas have been covered from the use of e-wallets to utilisation of other mobile applications for carrying out transaction securely.
“At present, maximum work at JAC is carried out through different cashless mediums only to maintain accuracy and save time. After the government announcement on adopting cashless medium, the members have decided to transform the method of receiving, giving payments by replacing them with e-wallets etc. So far, no deadline has been set for it but the council aims to achieve the target at earliest,” said, JAC Chairperson, Arvind Prasad Singh.
The financial transaction at council since its inspection is carried out only through cheques, demand draft (DD) etc. JAC is also planning to conduct few more training sessions for its employees in January.
“Two to three more technical training sessions are in pipeline. The talk is on with the officials of Allahabad Bank. Our aim is to sensitize all the employees of JAC from top management to workers lending their services on daily basis as well. The concept of DD, cheques will soon be completely eradicated and online provisions will take place shortly,” added JAC Financial Officer, Rakesh Kumar.
“Before ensuring online provision and preparation of database of all government schools, a technical session with all school principals will be conducted soon. It is time taking procedure but will be adopted swiftly, after linking schools with the main portal,” Kumar said.