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FREQUENTLY ASKED
QUESTIONS
What
is SPARK ?
Service
and Payroll Administrative Repository for Kerala (SPARK) has been developed by
National Informatics Centre based on State Government decision to implement an
Integrated Personnel and Payroll Management System covering all government
departments in the state. The pilot phase the package was first implemented in
the Government Secretariat. After evaluating the success of the pilot phase,
Government have decided to extend the same to all other Departments. Now the
implementation of SPARK is in progress in a lot of Departments.
How
does SPARK help employees?
Current
version of SPARK application can carry out the following functions
1. Registering
the Service Book of the employee and allotting Permanent
Employee Number (PEN). Thereafter PEN will be the important code to
identify the employee in the SPARK database.
2.
Capturing the details of Loans, Advances and other subscriptions like
LIC,
SLI, GIS, FBS etc
3. Processing
establishment Salary and generation of salary bills and
schedules.
4.
Processing SDO salary and generation of bills and schedules.
5.
Issuing salary slips
6.
Processing arrear salary, arrear DA etc
7.
Sanctioning Increment
8.
Processing leave salary and generation of bills.
9.
Assessing professional tax
10.
Revising salary on promotion
11.
Relieving employees on deputation by the donor department and admitting
in the recipient department.
12.
Sanctioning leaves, other than casual leave
13.
Processing Income Tax and generating different statutory forms.
14.
Issuing Identity Cards
In
the next phase the SPARK will incorporate transfer management, seniority list,
promotion management, budgeting etc any many more important functions.
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