The Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated the newly constructed building of Uttarakhand Financial Administration, Research and Training Institute here on Wednesday. He named the building located at Sudhowala after Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya on the occasion.
Addressing the training programme of the fifth batch of State Finance Service officers, CM said that financial management is all about achieving big targets with minimum amount of money. He said that with the many trainee officers having technical background, the state administration would be benefitted of both the financial management and technical management.
Emphasising the challenge to complete maximum projects from the limited financial resources, Rawat said that effective financial management would help a lot. “We must follow our duty with efficient management, complete honesty and integrity,’’ he said.
Rawat said that all types of facilities are available at one place in the institute for enhancing capacity of financial management, skill development and necessary up-gradation.
Speaking on the occasion, the state finance minister Prakash Pant said that knowledge, experience and training have an important role to play in financial management. He said that soon regular training programmes for the government employees would start at the institute.
Claiming that the Uttarakhand is the first state in the country where all the Financial Acts since 1947 till date are available in one place, Pant said that they would be digitized soon.
The institute would provide training on financial management to government departments, prepare refresher courses for middle and high level officers, hold discussions on various aspects of financial management, provide professional support for financial management, impart training on research work for financial management, assist in publication of research papers and give information about financial rules and procedures to the officials of the government and public sector units.
The Sahaspur MlA Sahdev Singh Pundir and secretary Amit Singh Negi were also present on the occasion.