- A G2G, G2E & G2C initiative of Finance Department, Govt of Odisha
http : // lfaodisha.ori.nic.in

Honourable  Minister, Finance  and  Public  Enterprises   of   Govt.  of   Odisha, Sj. Prafulla Chandra Ghadai inaugurated the launching of Local Fund Audit Portal   on 14th May’2012 in the presence of Principal Secretary, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha, Sj. Jugal Kishore Mohapatra, IAS and State Informatics Officer, NIC-Odisha State Centre Sj. Susanta Kumar Panda along with officers from NIC, Odisha State Centre,  Local Fund Audit, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha and members of News Paper Agencies and media.

The objective of Automation of Local Fund Audit (ALFA) is to provide more Fiscal Discipline and Efficiency in Audit. The launching of Local Fund Audit (LFA) Portal has taken up the job of providing a more transparent, efficient and accurate Audit Process along with basic citizen services.

While inaugurating, Honourable Minister appreciated the joint efforts made by Local Fund Audit, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha and NIC by establishing an ICT based solution that will cater the need of the organization with objective to automate the Audit workflow i.e. starting from preparation of Annual Audit Programme to finally publication of Audit Reports and recording the compliances.
Sj. Jugal Kishore Mohapatra, IAS Principal Secretary, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha  in   his  keynote  highly  appreciated the  efforts  made   by NIC, Odisha State Centre  for supporting various  computerization activities in Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha. He   specially thanked  NIC for successfully implementation of the project Online  Budget system for the state this year

The Guest  of Honour,  Sj. Susanta Kumar Panda, SIO, NIC, Odisha State Centre addressing on the occasion thanked the  finance  department  for entrusting  on NIC to develop the Automation of Local Fund Audit (ALFA )Portal, which will be very useful for all the staff of Local Fund Audit Office starting from field level auditors to district audit officer along with audit superintendent and examiner.

The Inaugural session was followed by the training for all District Audit Officers (DAO) by Smt. Minati Sahu, PSA along with Shri S.Sarangi from Local Fund Audit office on general concepts and workflow of ALFA (Automation of Local Fund Audit) portal.

The event was coordinated by Shri Dilip Kumar Jena, TD and Smt. Minati Sahu, PSA from NIC, Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar.