GOVERNMENT IS FACING FINANCIAL CRISES AND IT IS NECESSARY TO FOLLOW PRESERVATION OF THE SENSITIVE INFORMATION, SO ISSUED BY THE STATE FINANCE DEPARTMENT

The state government is feeling financial crises in the present ongoing system of departmental action after presentation of Audit report which must be brought on the record and presented to the House of the Departments concerned and further suomoto action is initiated at their level without waiting for the formal questionnaire from the public Accounts Committee and report to the Committee action taken by them on each such para within a period of three months from the presentation of report except those in sub -pata (ii) . The Secretary Finance will watch the action being taken by the respective departments on the paras included in the Audit report. (ii) The Secretary finance shall collect and furnish to the Committee, the information regarding misappropriation, devaluation, pending inspection reports and paras, uncollected revenue and utilization certificates as appeared in the Audit Report presented to the House within six months of its presentation:(iii) The questionnaire on important paras selected by the Committee shall be sent to the department concerned with a copy to the Finance department immediately, so that further action on the captioned subject may be taken accountability. It is obviously clear in the matter that department of Finance Government of Himachal Pradesh has raised issue of funding as a measure of three months compliance for emergency funding to the each department and related to the urgent expenditures and heads of accounts required to be continued in the coming three months as feeling shortage of funds in the present circumstances of the proposals for the future development and appointments for the unemployed and other emergency issues related to the welfare of public of the state. Keeping in view the above situation and position of the financial crises, revelation of information issued by the department of HP Finance in actual practice is likely to conflict with other public interests including efficient operations of the Government, optimum use of limited fiscal resources and the preservation of confidentiality of the sensitive information required to be under the control of the Government and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed, so that it may not adversely affect against the annual plan and allocations in respect of the each department responsible to follow suggestive measures before taking up the matter with the Central Government and also to prepare a brief report for information and consideration of the house during budget session, for which comments on the captioned subject by Shri Anil Sharma Chairman of the opposition front and working committee on the appropriation accounts of the state, the annual financial accounts of the state or such other accounts or financial matters as are laid and verified so referred by the Chairman of the Committee, deemed necessary to scrutinize with the prior approval of the Speaker of the House and also to bring the facts findings on the public notice within the prescribe time and strict action should be taken in the interest of public welfare and examination of the departmental notes :-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association, Registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number, 9459334377