Chief Secretary reviews DBT implementation with Administrative Secretaries, DCS

JAMMU, NOVEMBER 21: Chief Secretary, B B Vyas, Tuesday reviewed the progress of implementation of the Public Financial Management System (PFMS) and Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme with Administrative Secretaries, Divisional Commissioners and all Deputy Commissioner’s.

Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir and Deputy Commissioners participated in the meeting via video conferencing.

Implementation of DBT with respect to all Central Sector and State Sector Schemes was discussed in the meeting. It was informed that State DBT Portal has been registered and is active.

Chief Secretary impressed upon the Administrative Secretaries and Deputy Commissioners to expedite the implementation of the PFMS and DBT scheme. He said PFMS & DBT will improve programme administration and management, and ensure transparency and accountability in the use of public funds.

DCs were asked to monitor on weekly basis i.e every Tuesday, the progress in regard to Aadhaar seeding, data validation of beneficiaries across all schemes and uploading of beneficiary data on the PFMS and State DBT Portal besides sharing the details with the State DBT Coordinator i.e Director Budget in the Finance Department.

Further, Administrative Secretaries were asked to nominate departmental Nodal Officers for PFMS/DBT implementation by tomorrow.

For addressing capacity building requirements across all Departments and at the District level, Chief Secretary asked the Finance Department to depute expert teams to both the divisions for 4 days starting from 28^th November, 2017. These experts will train the nominated Nodal Officers and other officers at the District, and Divisional levels in regard to various aspects of the PFMS/DBT implementation. One such expert team will also provide training at the Secretariat level.