Central Secretariat

The exchange secretariate scheme in India is based on two principles (1) The task of constitution planning needs to be separated from policy implementation. (2) Maintaining Cadre of Officers operating on the tenure system is a prerequisite to the working of the Secretariat system. The primaeval Secretariat is a policy do body of the government and is not, to cut work of proceeding, unless necessitated by the lack of official agencies to perform certain tasks. The Central Secretariat usually performs the following functions (1)Assisting the attend in the dis carriage of his policy making and parliamentary functions. 2)Framing legislation, rules and principles of procedure. (3)Sect oral planning and program formulation. (4)(a) Budgeting and control of expenditure in respect of activities of the Ministry/de actuatement. (b)Securing administrative and financial eulogy to operational programme and their subsequent modifications. (c)Supervision and control over the execution o f policies and programmes by the administrator departments or semi- independent field agencies. (d)Imitating steps to develop greater personnel and organizational competence both in the ministry/department and its executive agencies. e)Assisting in increasing coordination at the Central level. Structure of Central Secretariat Structure of Central Secretariat is such(prenominal) that the entire system is dissever into a number of secretaries, deputy secretaries, joint secretaries and so on. The division of posts is stratified in nature. The Central Secretariat is a collection of various ministries and departments. merely the Cabinet Secretariat, which is in reality a ministry comprising more than unitary department, is until now cognise as the secretariat. A ministry is the entrust allotted to ministers.This may take on one or more departments depending upon administrative convenience, each under the charge of a repository. A department on the other hand is an org anizational unit consisting of a escritoire to government together with a part of the central secretariat under his administrative control on which the accountability of performing specific functions has been conferred. Thus technically, a department should be identify with a secretarys charge and a ministry with a ministers charge. However, this distinction is not always maintained.Thus, if a ministry has more than one department within itself, it may have more than one secretary in which case there will arise the need for making one secretary superior to other secretaries who will represent the ministry. A ministry is responsible for the formation of the government policy within its sphere of indebtedness as well as for the execution of that policy. Thus in impairment of internal organisation, a ministry is divided into the following segments within an officer in charge of each of them to expedite mattersDepartment- depository/Additional/Special Secretary Wing- Joint/Addition al Secretary. Division- Under Secretary. Section- Section Officer The lowest of such units is the section in charge of a Section Officer and consists of a number of assistants, clerks, Daftaries, typists and peons. It deals with the work relating to the subject allotted to it. It is also referred to as the Office. ii sections constitute the branch which is under the charge of an under secretary, also known as the Branch Officer.Two branches ordinarily form a division which is normally headed by a deputy secretary. When the volume of work in a ministry exceeds the manageable charge of a secretary, one or more wing are established with a joint secretary in charge of each wing. At the top of the hierarchy comes the department which is headed by the secretary himself or in some cases by an additional/ special secretary. In some cases, a department may be as autonomous as a ministry and equivalent to it in rank. FUNCTIONS