Meghalaya Finance Department (megfinance.gov.in): Contacts

New Defined Contribution Pension Scheme was started during the year 2010-11 vide Government Office Memorandum No. FEM(PC)7/2007/Pt-II/66 dt. 24.03.2010 with effective date from 01.04.2010. The scheme is applicable to all regular Government employees who entered service on or after 01.04.2010 but for All India Service personnel who are in the State Government of Meghalaya, it is applicable from 01.01.2004. The Government employees have to make a contribution of 10% on his/her basic pay plus Dearness Allowances which is deductable from his/her monthly salary bill every month by the DDO and the Government will make an equal matching contribution. The fund is transferred regularly to the Pension Fund Manager.

Meghalaya Employee DB is an integrated package of Personnel Information which includes Basic Information, Leave Record, Salary, Loan, HR/Service Book), Payroll etc. Salient features. No. of employee record digitized is 58060 and number of offices where salary has been generated is 903 out of 960.

The payment of monthly Pension to the Pensioners have been automated for all Treasuries and Sub-Treasuries in the state. The Pensioners need not come to the Treasury to submit their pension bills every month but the payment is processed centrally and the amount is credited directly to bank account of the pensioner. The State Government has adopted biometric system as an alternative automated method of verifying the identity of a living pensioner. Pensioner can do self verification through Kiosk Machine which has been installed in various treasuries and sub-treasuries and a number of banks. Plans have been drawn up to install the KIOSK in more Banks and other important public offices like Offices of the Deputy Commissioner etc.

It is an electronic payment system (e-Receipt) offered by the State Government in addition to the conventional methods of payment receipts through the physical treasury. The online application for accepting payment to the government through the internet portals of different banks have been developed and ready for roll out and implementation