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To begin with, there appears to be a crackdown on the practice of secretaries holding dual charges for several months

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday asserted that department-related standing committees and consultative committees of Parliament will be constituted soon. His remarks come against the backdrop of certain opposition leaders questioning the delay in constituting standing committees, which scrutinise the functioning of Union ministries. Addressing an event of his ministry here, he said in the past too, the standing committees and consultative committees have been formed around September 15 and there was no delay. While a majority of the standing committees come under the Lok Sabha Secretariat, some are serviced by the Rajya Sabha. Department-related standing committees deal with various Union ministries and scrutinise their budgetary allocations and bills introduced in Parliament. They also recommend the government to bring bills and make policies on important issues. The consultative committees are chaired by the ministers in charge of their respective ministr

Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the PM had promised the country that a "blueprint" for the first 100 days of the next government was ready

The March 11 document says Modi asked all departments to prepare five-year action plans as part of his goal to lift India to a fully developed country by 2047 from middle-income levels.

The first-of-its-kind meeting will see participation of all 10 ministries/ departments, project management agencies, and industry meetings

DPIIT, which is responsible for overseeing Gati Shakti NMP, has also prepared a document - a crucial resource for clarity and data management practices - for relevant stakeholders

About fifty organisations and 16 departments/ ministries outsourced work to these consultancy firms, which include PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG, along with McKinsey & Company

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has okayed the appointment of Umang Narula as secretary in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

Ministries and departments are hardly recruiting, but is that helping save costs?

As many as 14 social sector ministries, including Health and Panchayati Raj, have integrated their data on the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (NMP) platform, the commerce and industry ministry said on Thursday. About 61 data layers of these ministries related to infrastructure assets, such as primary and secondary schools, colleges, primary health centres, district hospitals, health sub-centres, public toilets, dump sites, Anganwadi centres, fair price shops, Amrit samovars, and dairy locations have been mapped on NMP. Individual portals of these Ministries/Departments have been developed, which are integrated at the backend with the NMP, it said. Special Secretary, Logistics Division, in the ministry Sumita Dawra said that for wider adoption of PM GatiShakti NMP, a comprehensive area approach planning should be focused upon. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are to be developed by each social sector ministry to serve as guidelines for data management, which may be replicate

Dept says tender terms favourable to foreign firms

A CAG report has flagged 24 cases of irregularities involving Rs 348.57 crore related to four Ministries and Departments and four Central Public Sector Enterprises

Ministries are now permitted to utilise unspent balances from Quarterly Expenditure Plan for 1st and 2nd quarter within a fiscal year under intimation to Budget Division for cash management purposes

'I propose a common "offer" to countries that are engaged in imagining a joined-up foreign, trade, defence and development policy framework', says the author

Sitharaman said PM Modi has asked all ministers to identify compliance burdens for the industry in their respective ministries and departments, and simplify them

All the 77 ministers in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led cabinet have been divided into eight different groups

The cumulative share of these items is 57.66 per cent in total import during the March-August 2021 period

However, expenditure related to containment of the pandemic is excluded from the scope of this order.

The decision has been taken given the fact that using technological innovations for planning, scheduling and forecasting is known to be economical, efficient and effective

On September 30, 53.4 per cent of BE 2019-20 was spent by various ministries/departments