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| Officials to be responsible for any fund lapse | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 20: In a bid to ensure accountability among the top officers, the government has warned them of action if funds released for development works were allowed to lapse.
Funds worth crores get lapsed annually in the state due to non-utilisation within scheduled time. Now the departmental heads have been directed for timely utilisation of funds and to fix the responsibility if funds were allowed to lapse.
"Directions have been passed to departments to ensure timely utilisation of funds as less developmental works take place in last quarter of the year due to non-utilization of funds casuing them to lapse," an official of the Finance Department said.
Several departments have cautioned the officials against slackness and urged them to use the funds released early.
"The executing agencies are directed to ensure that all these works are both physically and financially completed in all aspects without creating any liability and spilling over the same for the next financial year as no funds shall be provided during next financial year," an official quoting government's directives read.
"Any laxity in this behalf shall be personal responsibility of the concerned implementing agency, which shall be noted forthwith for strict compliance," the official said.
The departments have also been told that developmental works should be started with proper approval from Planning and Finance Department to know the source of funds.
"The concerned officials will be held responsible if these works get affected for want of funding," an official of the General Administration Department said.
The departments have also been directed to submit monthly progress report. Government has failed to evaluate performance of their departments on the basis of timeline completion of targets, outcomes of the schemes, priorities fixed, quality of work done, and status of benefits of projects.
This is because departments are not submitting their performance report to the government. "Most of the officials are hiding the performance details about their departments," the official added. |
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