STATE GOVERNMENT AND WORKING OF THE GOVERMENT REGULATED UNDER ARTICLE 166 OF THE CONSTITUTION, RELATED TO REVIEW AND ANALYSING POLICY HAS NO INFORMATION AND (SIC) IS IN DEFUNCT POSITION FOR ABOUT ONE YEAR OF DURATION

Rules under Article 166 of the Constitution describing allocation of business and working of the Government regulated under orders and provision of the Rules where in the Rule 2 of the business of the Government of Himachal pradesh (Allocation) Rules 1971 provides that the entire business of the Government shall be translated in the Departments of Himachal pradesh, specified in the schedule and shall be classified and distributed between those departments as laid down there in. Further Rule 4 of these rules provides that there shall be a Secretary for each department who shall be the official Head of the Department. The Rules of business provides for a permanent  Secretariat divided into the Departments, each with the designated set of activities and clearly defined procedure. This Secretariat is primarily meant to provide support to the Council of Ministers in discharging its constitutional obligations and in taking various decisions concerning the welfare of the State and the people. The actual implementation of 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 policies, planning and the overall implementation. The Directorates in addition to expecting programmes also act as agencies to collect and interpret data and provide appropriate information to the Secretariat departments in framing, reviewing and analysing policy matters. It is a matter of concern that the Head of the Department HPPWD taking no cognisance on the captioned subject matter deliberation required to be replied on the ACPS matter after pay Commission report issued by the department of Finance since 3-1-2022 , and the memoranda of letters issued by the Secretariat departments kept pending since 25-11-2025 to date non compliance and decision making under pendency of cases where these offices are also held responsible for monthly statement of cases pending finalization over for -3 months however no correspondence is a dereliction of duty and non compliance, where RTI and the RTS also pending for the decision making under sub section (3) and section 12 of the RTI Act, 2005 as the SIC is in defunct position and the officers and official working their are idle because of the vacant slots existing in the Institute of SIC for about one year:-- Er Fateh Chand Guleria Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal pradesh phone number 9459334377