SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 19: Chief
Secretary, B B Vyas Tuesday called on the Administrative Secretaries to ensure that funds placed at
disposal of their departments are spent on time to take advantage of the early
releases.
Chairing the meeting of the Committee of Secretaries (CoS) here, Chief
Secretary observed that purpose of passing the Annual Budget, 2017-18 in
January, 2017, was to avail the ‘early bird’ benefit
and to provide impetus to the developmental initiatives. He asked the Administrative
Secretaries to provide impetus to spending and ensure submission of utilization
certificates (UCs) against the work done.
Chief Secretary reviewed the status of various works as part of the
Prime Minister’s Development Programme (PMDP-2015) and Chief Minister’s
commitments. He asked the Administrative Secretaries to speed up execution of
projects under PMDP and identify the core areas which require immediate
attention. He also impressed upon following the directions given by the Chief
Minister during her tours.
Appreciating the sanitation related activities being carried by various
departments including the Education department as part of the Nationwide
Sanitation Campaign “Swachhta Hi Seva”, Chief Secretary called upon the concerned Administrative Secretaries
to actively participate in the activities planned across the State till 2nd of
October, 2017.
Chief Secretary asked the Administrative Secretaries to undertake
regular field visits to review the implementation and assess the impact of
welfare programmes/schemes including inspection of PMGSY roads and other
development works being executed in various forest divisions of the State.
While reviewing the implementation of J&K Public Services Guarantee
Act (PSGA), Chief Secretary called for mass outreach through electronic and
print media and organizing awareness camps for benefit of the general public.
He asked the Administrative Secretaries to examine the possibility of further
reducing the timelines in providing of services to the public under the PSGA as
per the directions given by the Chief Minister in an earlier held conference of
DCs/SPs.
He urged Administrative Secretaries to switch over to GeM Portal for
procurement of Goods and Services and Public Financial Management System (PFMS)
for fund management/tracking, e payment and DBT.
The Committee was informed that under the capacity building programme,
officers are being sponsored for training in PFMS, GST and GeM. The
Administrative Departments were requested to furnish names of officers to the
Finance Department for their training in these fields depending upon their
departmental requirement. Chief Secretary emphasized on capacity building of
KAS officers to broaden their horizon and giving them exposure.
As regards early filling up of vacant posts through the designated
recruiting agencies, Chief Secretary asked the Administrative Secretaries to
liaise with the J&KPSC/SSB for removal of bottlenecks, if any, in the
recruitment process.
Chief Secretary also reviewed the status of disposal of public
grievances, settlement of SRO 43-cases, , Aadhaar Enabled Bio-Metric Attendance
System (AEBAS), cases relating to adhoc/consolidated/ contractual employees,
abolition of interviews for junior level posts, disposal of pending departmental
enquires, up-dation of departmental websites, web based file tracking system
and pending court cases.
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