The Personnel Information Management System (PIMS) has been developed by C-DAC for managing personnel information in a large department with their employees spread at dispersed locations. It was developed for the Public Works Department, Government of Maharashtra for its first deployment. It consists of the following modules that cover the various information of an Employee, which may be of concern during his/her service tenure in the department:

1. Personal Information: This module captures the personal details of an employee which includes the name, identification number, date of birth, blood group, religion and caste, address, qualifications, the details of family etc.

2. Recruitment Process: This module takes care of the information related to the recruitment process of an employee that includes the selection process, appointment order details and information about the various verifications carried out during the appointment.

3. Transfers and Promotions: This module is intended to maintain the details pertaining to all the transfers and promotions of employees during their service, which may subsequently be used for generation of Civil Lists, Seniority Lists, Select Lists and other related reports to facilitate the Establishment branch officials in effecting transfers and promotions.

4. Pay Details: This module captures the details of any change in the pay scale of an employee that gets effected due to processes like promotion, implementation of a new pay-commission's recommendations etc. It also keeps track of the change in the Basic pay of an employee as a result of annual increments etc.

5. Leaves: The module is intended to keep a record of the various leaves availed by an employee. There is a provision for an employee to apply for leaves ; the application gets routed to the superior who can go through his leave balances and sanction his leave. For certain grades there is a provision for giving additional charge during the period of absence of an employee and the module contains a facility for specifying this.

6. Training and Departmental Examination: This module maintains the information of all the trainings undergone, workshops and seminars attended by an employee. It also has a provision wherein the record of an employee in the various departmental examinations that he/she is required to undertake can be maintained.

7. Reviews: This module takes care of the annual confidential reviews as well as other age-dependent reviews of employees. Provisions also exist for entering the various awards and memos given to employees.

8. Reimbursements: The module is designed to take care of medical and travel expense reimbursements to the employees. Based on relevant entries the claims can be generated which can then be processed for final payments.

9. Retirement Benefits: The module maintains the record of various retirement benefits applicable to an employee and further keeps a track on the process that results in the final payment of these benefits to the retired employee.

10. Monthly Pay-bills: This module generates the monthly pay of an employee based on the his entries in Pay Details, Leave Details and depending on various advances taken and deductions applicable during a particular month. The module has been designed to generate various reports that a typical Government office in Maharashtra submits to the Treasury office for clearance of the pay-bill of the office.

11. Office Structure: This module provides a provision to define the hierarchy of offices in a department and also the various posts in an individual office.

12. Master Information: This module maintains all the information that is common for the entire organization, and changes in which are monitored on a organization-wide scale. It also contains the various rules and regulations with respect to various entitlements of Leaves, Dearness Allowance, House Rent Allowance etc.