Administrative matters should be dealt internally, finance asks other depts

INUNDATED with unnecessary requests and approvals that don't require its clearance, the Finance Department has asked all other departments to refrain from forwarding proposals that fall within their own delegated financial powers, an order issued by the department read.

- ASHISH SRIVASTAVA @ New Delhi

Departments have now been directed to revisit the financial powers assigned to them under the Delegation of Financial Power Rules, 1978, and act within that framework, without burdening the Finance Department with routine or redundant approvals. The direction comes in the wake of what the dep