Chief Secretary Alok Kumar Jain on Tuesday directed officials to ensure that all planning for expenditure be done at the earliest for the financial year 2013-14. During meeting he said they should make a roadmap for work to be done in the financial year. They should release the financial approvals soon. Works under progress should not be stopped due to the imposition of the code of conduct. Ongoing schemes approved earlier could be implemented.
Budget should be allocated by the administrative department to the heads of various departments. The process of plan allocation had already been computerized to make it fast and efficient.
He said provisions of the FRBM Act (Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act) should be followed. According to these, there should be revenue surplus. He said this was followed in the last financial year.
Other officials including Principal secretaries Rakesh Sharma, Ranbir Singh , S Raju and Radha Raturi, Secretaries MH Khan, Dr Umakant Panwar, Manisha Panwar, RC Pathak, Kunal Sharma, AK Dhaundiyal and Vinod Fonia, and Additional secretaries Vinod Sharma, Nidhi Pandey, Amit negi, Nitesh Kumar Jha, MC Joshi, Saujanya, RC Aggarwal, Manoj Chandra , VS Pandey and Shailesh Bagoli were present in the meeting.