Ensuring Safety and Security in sending digitally signed online e-Revision authority

CPAO OM on Ensuring safety & security in sending digitally signed online-e-Revision Authority to CPPCs of banks from CPAO.

Central Pension Accounting Office has issued an OM on Ensuring safety & security in sending digitally signed online-e-Revision Authority to CPPCs of banks from CPAO.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE

CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE

TRIKOOT-11, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE,

NEW DELHl-110066

PHONES: 26174596, 26174456, 26174438

CPAO/Tech/e-PPO/2015-16 /1736

dated 22.01.2016

Office Memorandum

Subject.- Ensuring safety & security in sending digitally signed online-e-Revision
Authority to CPPCs of banks from CPAO.

Movement of paperless Pension Payment Orders of revision of pension has been implemented in State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda and Canara Bank and only digitally signed e-revision Authorities are being sent to these banks online.

2. In remaining 25 banks, this project will be implemented from 01.02.2016. Initially, till 15.02.2016 physical authorities to these banks will be continued along with digitally signed e-Revision Authorities. With effect from 16.02.2016, physical authorities will be stopped.

3. For smooth, safe and secure functioning of e-PPO system for sending on line digitally signed revision authorities to banks from CPAO, all the banks are advised to ensure that:-

i) A provision is available in the banks to automatically incorporate the data (XML file) received through e-Revision Authority in their Data Base. It will reduce the time and likelihood of errors in data entry and ensure the correctness of data.

ii) A system of acknowledgement by CPPCs of the daily receipts of the revision authorities sent by CPAO has already been developed and the format of acknowledgement has been prescribed and also put on the website http://eppo.nic.in for the CPPCs (attached for ready reference). Banks are to ensure that acknowledgement are provided by them on daily basis through SFTP. This will enable both CPAO and CPPCs to monitor timely processing of e- authorities.

iii) Daily downloading of updated directory of digital signatures from the CPAO website to ensure the authenticity of officers of CPAO who are digitally signing the revision authorities before processing of cases.

iv) The provision of archival and time stamping of digitally signed revision authorities/digital signatures of officers of CPAO, because the validity of these digital signatures is two years, so that if any digital signature becomes time barred, the authenticity and genuineness of e- authority previously signed and sent by the officers of CPAO can be verified.

4. CPPCs may send their compliance report on 3(i) & 3(iv) above to CPAO latest by l 5th February, 2016.

(Vijay Singh)

Sr. Accounts Officer (IT & Tech)

 

XML Format for Acknowledgment ePPO (Revision)

October 8, 2015

1. File Name (Nomenclature) : ACK-<SAME as of ePPO (Revision) Data file>.xml

The Name of file should be same as what file name was received from CPAO but with a prefix ‘ACK-‘

E.g.ACK-1724046-20150601.xml

2. File Structure

<ACK>

<PPO_NO></PPO_NO>
<DIARY_NO></DIARY _NO>
<SSA_NO></SSA_NO>
<PROCESSED_DATE></PROCESSED_DATE>
<PROCESSING_STATUS></PROCESSING_STATUS>
<PROCESSING_REMARKS></PROCESSING_REMARKS>

</ACK>

2.1. TAG Description:

2.1.1. <PPO_NO>: PPO Number of Case Processed.

2.1.2. <DIARY_NO>: Diary Number Associated with PPO number (Already provided by CPAO in ePPO (Revision) Data file).

2.1.3. <SSA_NO>: SSA Number Associated with PPO number (Already provided by CPAO in ePPO (Revision) Data file).

2.1.4. <PROCESSED_DATE>: Date when case was processed by BANK (CPPC).

2.1.5. <PROCESSING_STATUS>: This Tag will only have either of two Value

2.1.5.1. ACCEPTED: in case of successful processing.
2.1.5.2. REJECTED: in case of discrepancy or error.

2.1.6. <PROCESSING_REMARKS>: This is mandatory in case when processing status is
‘REJECTED’ and description should be given about the error/discrepancy.

Note: The acknowledgment file should be generated individually for all cases received and processed  i.e. a file will contain record for only one PPOcase, if  acknowledgment is not received within 3 days it will be treated as accepted.
Download CPAO OM CPAO/Tech/e-PPO/2015-16 /1736 dated 22.01.2016