The ministry of public service has introduced the Integrated Personnel Payroll System IPPS which it says will help standardize pay and pension business process.

The Assistant commissioner Human resources management Gorrette Sendiyona said IPPS is an enterprise widely integrated, computerized and efficient human resource management information system that will be used by ministries and government departments.

Mrs. Sendiyona says the system will help government to manage the public human resource information more efficiently and effectively.

She said it will help strengthen accountability and control by improving the management of public service work force and enhance payroll and pension controls.

Sendiyona said the IPPS is being implemented in phase and the first phase the pilot phase that is already on going in the ministries of health, finance and education plus a few local government districts of Jinja and Lira and the 2nd phase, the system will be rolled out to other Areas.

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias