THE SECRETARIAT IS PRIMARILY MEANT TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, IN DISCHARGING IT'S CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATIONS, AND TAKING DECISIONS CONCERNING THE WELFARE OF THE STATE AND IT'S PEOPLE.

The constitutional provisions for states, required for the rules of Business provide for a permanent Secretariat divided into the Departments, each with the designated set of activities and clearly defined procedure , laid by the law code manual. This Secretariat is primarily meant to work and provide support to the council of Ministers in discharging its constitutional obligations and in taking various decisions concerning the welfare of the State and its people. The actual implementation of the policy and programmes is done by the field staff of the various Departments and these activities and the staff are controlled from the day to day functioning point of view by Directorates so that the Secretariat Departments are left free to concentrate on issues relating to the policy, planning and the overall implementation. The Directorates in addition to executing programmes also act as agencies to collect and interpret data and provide appropriate information to the Secretariat Departments in framing, reviewing and analysing policy. In accordingly the entire business of the Government shall be transacted in the Departments, specified in the schedule and shall be classified and distributed between those Departments as laid down there in and further it is mentioned in the rules that there shall be a secretary for the each department, who shall be the office Head of the Department.