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Government of Jammu & Kashmir, Finance Department, .

Civil Secretariat, Sri nagar IJammu.

Subject:- Review of Capex Budget 2019-20.

1. A meeting was conducted by Advisor (S) to Hon'ble Governor

with all the Administrative Secretaries on 07.05.2019 at 3.00

PM, in which Hon'ble Advisors to Governor and Chief Secretary

also participated. The Divisional Commissioners and the Deputy

Commissioners of all the districts also participated in the

meeting through video conferencing.

2. At the outset, Principal Secretary to Government, Finance

Department welcomed all the participants and expressed

concern regarding the pace of expenditure during first month of

the current financial, primarily due to Model Code of Conduct.

He emphasized the need to catch up with the lost time. All the

Hon'ble Advisors raised concern about progress in the

developmental works. Advisor (S) to Hon'ble Governor

requested all the Administrative Secretaries and Deputy

Commissioners to point out issues faced by them in execution

of the works in a timely manner.

3. Chief Secretary directed Deputy Commissioners to identify

causes of delay in the works in consultation with all the

departments and resolve micro level problems. In case of on­

going works, he stressed that problems due to past legacies

need to be addressed. New Works need to be completed timely

and adherence to all the pre-requisite formalities need to be

ensured.

4. Detailed discussions were held on various issues and following

decisions were taken:

(i) Finalization of State Annual Plans:

It was pointed out that the 'departments shown in

annexure-A had not submitted their State Annual Plans.

The departments were instructed to furnish the State Plan

within two days.

(ii) Finalization of District Plans:

District Plans had not been received from districts at

Annexure B. The concerned Deputy Commissioners were

directed to furnish the same within indicated time frames.

(iii) Accord of Administrative Approval:

Departments were directed to ensure that the process of

completion of pre-requisites including accord of AA for

timely implementation of planned activities during the

year is completed not later than end of May, 2019, so that

all tendering processes are completed by the end of June,

2019. Each Administrative Secretary/DC/HoD shall inform

number of AAA needed for 2019-2020 past within a week

and ensure their completion before end of May. It was

unanimously decided that AA must be accorded to each

work before its execution and rules must be followed

strictly. In respect of CSS, if DPR is approved by Central

Government, administrative approval shall be deemed to

have been accorded. Where no DPR has been approved,

AA will need to be accorded.

(iv) AA for ongoing works:

In case of ongoing works, AA must be accorded as per

delegation of powers and in pursuance of circular

instructions issued by the Finance Department from time

to time, however, legacy issues shall be submitted by all

the departments to Finance Department for issuance of

appropriate directions after consideration of a committee

headed by Principal Secretary Finance comprising

Principal Secretary, PD&MD, Housing & Urban

Development Department and Commissioner/Secretary

School Education Department as its members. The

information about all such cases must be furnished before

25th of May, 2019 and committee shall submit its report

by 30th of May, 2019.

(v) Allotment of works on nomination basis:

The issue of allotment of work on nomination basis was

discussed. All the Hon'ble Advisors stated that allotment

of works on nomination was highly undesirable. Principal

Secretary Finance stated that such practice defeats the

purpose of actual discovery of price and is against norms

and canons of financial propriety and should be strictly

avoided. It was also against law laid down by the Hon'ble

Supreme Court. Therefore, all Government Departments

including corporations such as JKPCC, Police House

Corporation etc. must follow tendering process for

allotment of work.

(vi) Regarding languishing projects scheme, it was pointed

out that bills are not being furnished which was viewed

seriously and Administrative Secretaries were requested

to own up these works. A target of 1000 projects was laid

down to be completed during the current financial year.

AA issues, if any, can be looked into by the committee

headed by Principal Secretary to Government, Finance

Department with Principal Secretary to Government,

Housing & Urban Development Department, Principal

Secretary to Government, Planning, Development &

Monitoring Department and Commissioner/Secretary to

Government, School Education Department as its

members.

(vii) Departments were further advised to furnish timely UCs

to Government of India for leveraging more funds under

CSS.

(viii) Out of RS.8000 crores budgeted during last financial year,

J&K State has been able to leverage only RS.2300 crores.

The dismal performance under PMDP was also viewed

seriously and departments were advised to identify and

remove bottlenecks so that works under PMDP are

executedtimely which have been budgeted for the current

financial year.

(ix) Few Deputy Commissioners raised concern about dismal

allocation under district capex, more particularly under

Agriculture and Allied Sectors. Finance Department noted

the concern of the DCs regarding inadequate district

sector allocation.

(x) All the participants were informed that the "JKPaysys" an

online payment system shall be implemented within the

State and instructions would be separately issued, shortly.

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.

Sd/- (Dr. Arun Kumara Mehta) Principal Secretary to Govt,

Finance Department.

No: FD/DED-II/2019/03 -II Dated: 22 -05-2019

Copy to: 1. All Administrative Secretaries to Govt. 2. Divisional Commissioner Jammu/Kashmir. 3. Director General Budget Finance Department. 4. Director Expenditure Division-I Finance Department. 5. Special Secretary to Govt, Finance Department 6. All District Development Commissioners. 7. All Head of Departments/Managing Directors of PSUs 8. All Chief Engineers PW(R&B)/PDD/PHE,l&FC. 9. Joint Director Resources Finance Department. 10. OSD to Hon'ble Advisors (K)/(G)/(S)/(KS) for information

of Hon'ble Advisors. 11. Pvt. Secretary to Chief Secretary for information of Chief

Secretary. 12. Pvt. Secretary to Principal cretary to Govt, Finance

Department for information. 13. . l/C website GAD/F ce for uploading on websites.

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ANNEXURE-A Defaulting Departments.

S.No. Name of Department

1 Housing and Urban Dev. Deptt.

2 PHE,I&FC Department.

3 Tribal Affairs Deptt.

4 Physical Educa~ion Deptt.

5 Science & Technology Deptt.

ANNEXURE-B Defaulting Districts

Nil (No pendency)