In a step towards strengthening the financial management systems and keeping an eye on wasteful expenditure in various departments of the Government, Deputy Controller of Accounts (DCA) under the Finance Department of Delhi has issued an order, declaring integrated financial advisors (IFAs) by the Government for administrative secretaries for clusters of departments. The finance department has divided all important departments into nine clusters.
An order has been passed on Saturday that states that in order to have speedy decision making within the ambit of prevailing rules, instructions, guidelines, policies, procedures and precedents of finance (account) department, advise of experienced accounts functionaries in financial matters must be taken so that enhanced financial powers delegated to administrative secretaries dated March 12 be easily discharged.
As per the order, various departments have been clustered into one and further been integrated with financial advisors that will guide the account functionaries subordinate to them in respective departments.
The departments of trade and taxes, law, power and home respectively as one cluster will be supervised by DCA (trade and taxes) wherein DCA (trade and taxes) for law, power and home departments will also have additional charge while supervising them. Similarly, eight other clusters have been formed. The DCA (Excise) will supervise departments of excise and entertainment tax and public works with additional charges specifically for the PWD and similarly education and higher education departments as a cluster will be administered by the DCA (education).
While transport, development and rural development are bunched together, departments of land and building, women and child development, department of welfare of SC/ST/OBC and minorities and social welfare are clustered into one. In the same way training and technical education is stated as cluster eight and revenue and irrigation and flood control has been stated as cluster nine.