The Prime Minister has approved
allocation relating to following items of work to Shri
Namo Narain Meena, Minister of
State (Expenditure & Financial Services) in addition to the work
already allocated to the Minister of State vide Department of Expenditure’s
Office Order No. A-22012/1/2006-Admn.I (i) dated
5.6.2009. The approved allocation of work vide Office Order No. 260/15/C/001/2012-ES.I dated
29.06.2012 of the Prime Minister’s Office is as follows:
(A)
Common to all Departments
(Expenditure, Financial Services and Economic Affairs):
(a)
Answering all Starred and Unstarred Questions (after Minister-in-charge has been briefed on replies for starred questions) and all Parliamentary work including verification and authentication of notifications, other documents, reports etc. which are
required to be laid on the Table of either House.
(b)
Disposal of VIP
references.
(c)
All
disciplinary cases — both for initiation and final orders.
(d)
Cases related to appointment, promotion, resignation and voluntary
retirement of officers below Deputy
Secretary level in services under the Ministry of Finance.
(e)
Appeals/Petitions
in disciplinary cases
(f) Cases of
training/deputation abroad.
(g) Cases relating to premature retirement under
FR 56 and Rule 48
of Pension Rules.
(B)
The following
items relating to the Department of
Expenditure are
delegated to the MoS:
(a) Proposals to be placed before the Cabinet Committee on Accommodation.
(b) Proposals
relating to revision of salaries and allowances consequent to the
recommendations made
by the 6th Pay Commission,
(c) Cases
approved by PIB and EFC.
(d) Proposals
related to sanction of Non-Plan expenditure upto Rs. 300 crore. Cases of Rs. 300 crore and above
which require Cabinet/CCEA approval will be put up to the Minister in-charge (PM).
(e)
Approval of plan schemes (including PPP Projects) with original cost estimates upto Rs. 300 crore. For projects costing less than Rs. 300 crore, increase beyond
20% of last approved cost estimates, resulting
in an absolute cost escalation of greater than Rs. 100 crore will be put up to the Minister in- charge
(PM). For Projects costing Rs. 300 crore or above, increase in cost upto
20% (First RCE) and upto 5% (Second RCE) of
the last approved cost estimates beyond changes due to price escalation, statutory levies and exchange rate variation,
shall be approved by the MoS.
(f) All demands likely to figure as Supplementaries.
(g) Assistance to States including assistance for
natural calamities and the National Calamity
Contingency Fund.
(C)
The following
items of work relating to the Department of Economic Affairs are delegated to the MoS:
(a) National
Savings Organization and small saving related matters.
(b) Matters pertaining to currency
and coinage
(D),
The following items of work relating to the Department of Financial Services are delegated to the MoS:
(a) All matters
except those meant for Cabinet and its Committees and policy matters.
(b) Appointment
of non-official Directors in Boards of PSBs.
(E) All other matters not specifically delegated to the MoS will be submitted
directly to the Prime Minister.
2. Comments
of the Finance Ministry in all major proposals for consideration of the Cabinet or its Committees will be submitted
to Minister-in-charge (PM),
3. In all cases where a draft Note for the Cabinet or its
Committees
has been sent to more than one Department
of the Ministry of Finance for comments, one consolidated file
is to be put up for
orders of PM in the manner laid down below:
(a)
In respect of draft notes which have been formulated based on
the recommendations of EFC/PIB, the consolidated file would be put up by
Secretary (Expenditure)
after obtaining the comments from other Departments as the case may be.
(b)
In all other cases, Finance Secretary will put up the consolidated file.
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