The Department of Treasuries & Accounts, Government of Nagaland, organised training on SNA-Sparsh for Government Departments at its Directorate’s Conference Hall, Kohima on September 1.

The training was chaired by Director and HoD, Treasuries and Accounts, Tssurenthung Odyuo and the resource persons for the training were Assistant Accounts Officer, PFMS, Shalinder Sachdeva and Assistant Accounts Officer, PFMS, Meghna Sen.

Shalinder Sachdeva, in the training session, gave a brief history of the inception of SNA-Sparsh which was introduced in 2023 under the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance with an aim to facilitate more effective cash management and achieving the goal of “just-in-time” fund flow from both the Centre and State Consolidated Funds through an integrated network of State IFMS, e-Kuber of RBI for centrally-sponsored schemes (CSS).

The trainers, from various departments, were informed about the onboarding and post-onboarding status of the system in the State where Sachdeva said that the total number of schemes where Mother Sanction was issued were 9, the amount issued was 65.30 Crore, and the RBI accounts opened were 53. He also informed that as of June 2025, 66 CSS have been brought under its ambit and aims to have all CSS under it by November 2025.

Sachdeva stressed on the activities that needed to be completed under the SNA-Sparsh system namely opening an RBI account for the state-linked schemes (SLS), the process of obtaining Mother Sanction from the Central Ministry, generation and payment of e-payment files among others.

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He further spoke on the advantages of SNA-Sparsh including preventing bulk release of SNAs by both the centre and states, reducing the transfer of balances outside the Consolidated Fund of India and states, reducing the dependency of states on Ways and Means Advances, and averting idling of funds in the bank accounts of the SNAs until final utilization.

He also educated the attendees on the how the departments would be receiving the funds through the system and added that the State was very much integrated with the e-Kuber system

Meghna Sen, in the second session, trained the attendees on how to transition from the pre-SNA system to the newly introduced SNA-Sparsh system. She also talked about the features that would remain namely submission of proposal by states for release of funds by Central Ministry for CSS, the registration of new SLS –DBT and non DBT and others, and the new features like the New Action Menu at State Scheme Manager, mapping of new RBI account, generation of expenditure bills through IFMIS instead of PFMS, Mother Sanction to be released by GoI for centre share amongst others. It was also informed that the entire system would be operated through a single RBI account which was a shift from the previous usage of commercial banks’ accounts for the delivery of funds.

Lastly, Sen gave an insightful presentation on how to navigate and access the news features in the portal so as to work seamlessly through the system

The training ended with an interactive question-and-answer session.