About
The Field Pay Unit, CBDT, Bathinda is Cheque Drawing DDO under Zonal Accounts Office, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Amritsar. Since the Income Tax Department is one of the largest administrative formations under the Central Government spread far and wide throughout the country, many administrative formations may not be in the vicinity of a Zonal Accounts Office (ZAO). To provide speedy processing of bills of such offices, a unique arrangement has been made in the form of Field Pay Units (FPUs).
Financial Performance
The Field Pay Unit has processed over 15,000 transactions totaling ₹2,847 crores in the current financial year, with a 98.7% accuracy rate in disbursements.
Processing Accuracy: 98.7%
Officer Incharge
Punkaj Garg
Assistant Accounts Officer
Office:
0164-2241330
Email:
fubathinda@gmail.com
What's New
General Rule
In the departmentalised system of accounting, all payments are to be made only by the Pay and Accounts Offices of the Ministry/Department after proper pre-check. However, as a partial exception to this rule, the drawing and disbursing officers of offices which are not located at the same station where the Pay and Accounts Office is located, may be delegated powers with the prior approval of the Controller General of Accounts to draw funds directly from the local branches of the Public Sector Bank, accredited to the ministry / department by means of cheques for arranging payments of the categories specified in para 3.1.3.