Hon’ble Minister,   Finance & Public Enterprises   of   Govt  of   Odisha, Shri Pradip Kumar Amat inaugurated the launching of Small Savings  Portal on 14th August’2015 in the presence of Shri Debi Prasad Mishra, Hon’ble Minister, Department of Industries, Govt. of Odisha, Shri R. Balakrishnan, IAS, Addl. Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha and State Informatics Officer, NIC-Odisha State Centre Shri Susanta Kumar Panda along with officers from NIC, Odisha State Centre,  Directorate of Small Savings, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha and members of News Paper Agencies and media.

The main objective of ASSA (Automation of Small Savings Activities) portal is to capture data on small saving deposits at field level offices across the state, which can be directly used as input for small savings incentive lucky draw.

The launching of Small Savings Portal has taken up the job of providing a more transparent, efficient and accurate small saving lottery process along with basic citizen services.

While inaugurating, Hon’ble Minister appreciated the joint efforts made by Directorate of Small Savings, 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 entire small savings activities workflow i.e. starting from preparation of field level data to final publication of lottery results.

Shri R. Balakrishnan , IAS, Addl. Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha, in   his keynote address highly appreciated the efforts made   by NIC, Odisha State Centre  for supporting various  computerisation activities in Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha. He   emphasized for validation details while capturing filed level data and issue of lucky draw coupons.

In his guest of honour address Shri Susanta Kumar Panda, DDG & SIO, NIC, Odisha State Centre thanked the finance department for entrusting on NIC to develop the Automation of Small Savings Activities (ASSA) Portal, which will be very useful for field level staff of Directorate of Small Savings and general citizen to fetch lucky draw coupons on Small Savings.

The whole event was coordinated by team finance comprising Shri Dilip Kumar Jena, TD, Smt. Minati Sahu, TD & Shri Bebin Mishra, STA-B from NIC, Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar along with Shri Biraj Kumar Das, Special Secretary cum Director, Small Savings, Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha.