There are three categories of Indentors – namely Non Paying / Gratis, Paying Indentors and Advance Cash Paying Indentors . The Indentors belonging to the Ministries of Defence, Telecommunication , Postal Deptt. , Information & Broadcasting , Railways are paying categories , where as Indentors of Govt. of India Undertaking / Enterprises Advance Cash paying. The rest Indentors of other Ministries are Non-paying categories.
The Authorized Indentors are to submit their respective Annual Indents during the month of November/December of the preceding year for stationery requirements during the next financial year either to the Stationery Office , Kolkata or its Regional Stationery Depots( RSDs) as detailed below :-
The Indentors of the STATES - Punjab, Hariyana , Himachal Pradesh, Delhi , Jammu & Kashmir are under the RSDs, Netaji Nagar, New Delhi – 23.
The Indentors of the STATES – Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka & Kerala are under RSD, 63, College Road, Chennai – 600006.
The Indentors of the Mumbai V.T. & its surrounding areas of the State Maharashtra are under RSD, Mumbai.
The rest Indentors of the country are under GISO , 3, Church Lane, Kolkata – 700001.
The dependency of the Indentors are decided by the Dte. of Military Forms & Regulations (DMRF), New Delhi and the Stationery Deptt. is to arrange supply of stationery to the Indentors according to the dependency certificate issued by the DMRF.
The Controller of Stationery is to accord sanction to the newly created Central Govt. Organization to draw stationery stores either from GISO, Kolkata or its RSDs (according to the respective locations) on receipt of proposal from the Head of the Organization along with relevant documents.
In case of any changes related to the shifting , name of the Organization, etc. of the existing Authorized Indentors , necessary amendments in sanction are made on receipt of proposal from the concerned Indentors along with supporting documents .
The relevant Vouchers showing details of stores supplied against the Annual Indent and values thereof are sent to all Indentors for necessary payments through A/c payee Cheque / Demand Draft in favour of P & A. O.(Printing), Min. of Urban Development , Kolkata – 13 . The relevant D/D / Cheque along with the copy of Voucher duly acknowledging the receipt of the stores to the Financial Officer , G.I.S.O., Kolkata – 1. In case of Non-paying / Gratis Indentors, only the copy of the Vouchers duly acknowledging the receipt of the stores are required to sent to the Financial Officer ( F.O.).
For Advance Cash paying Indentors , supplies are arranged on receipt of advance payments against supplies to be made to the respective Indentors against their Annual Indent.
Bulk supplies of stationery stores are arranged by placing Supply Orders on the firm to make supplies at the Indentors’ end . In such cases the payments , if any, are being collected by the P & A.O.(Ptg.) , Kolkata of the Ministry from the concerned Indentors.