Work Plans to be uploaded on BEAMS portal
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 30: With new financial year beginning after two days, the Finance Department today ordered release of 50 percent of the capital expenditure and revenue expenditure of Jammu & Kashmir’s interim budget approved by the Parliament in February this year.
Two separate orders in this regard were issued today by the Finance Department.
The Finance Department accorded sanction for the authorization of 50 percent of the interim budget (Vote-on-Account) 2024-25 under Capex and Revenue budget in favour of all the Departments/District Development Commissioners.
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According to these orders, the Director Finance(s)/Director(s) Planning/Financial Advisor & CAO(S)/Joint Director(s) Planning and Controlling Officers of all the Departments shall be personally responsible for uploading of approved Work Plans (projects/works/activities) on BEAMS portal with the approval of competent authority by or before 20th April, 2024.
“All the District Development Commissioners shall furnish the District Plans (project/work/activity wise) after seeking approval of competent authority by or before 30th of April, 2024,” the orders said.
They further stated that in respect of district sector projects, CPO(s)/AO(s) of each district shall be responsible for uploading of the work plans on BEAMS portal once the same is approved by the competent authority within the stipulated time.
As per the order, no work will commence or liability incurred unless administrative approval has been obtained from the appropriate authority in each case, sanction to incur expenditure has been obtained from the competent authority, a properly detailed design has been sanctioned while designing the projects etc, estimates containing the detailed specifications and quantities of various items have been prepared on the basis of the Schedule of Rates maintained by PWD or other Public Works organizations, funds to cover the charge during the year have been provided by the competent authority, tenders invited and processed in accordance with rules and a work order issued.
“All the directions given by Administrative Council and the LG, the recommendations of the three conferences of the Chief Secretaries, the consultations with local government institutions and the feedback received by Departments under B2V programmes, Public Darbar, Public Grievances meetings, etc should be reviewed while framing the annual plans and shall form part of budget outlays for 2024-25,” the order read.
It said the focus of the Departments/DDCs must be on completion of ongoing and new works rather than starting large number of underfunded works or spreading of resources thinly over the number of years.
The timeline for completion of new works/activities taken up for execution during the financial year 2024-25, should be between one to two years. In rare cases of mega-projects, the Department may extend timeline upto three years,” it added.
The new works / activities will be uploaded only if the budget outlay in 2024-25 for such activity is at least 40% of the approved cost of the project.
“All the spillover and ongoing works/activities which are expected to be completed during the year 2024-25 or at the most in succeeding year shall be the first charge on Capex Budget 2024-25. The Departments/DDCs shall ensure that no ongoing work is left out,” the order said.
“As the Parliament has only approved interim budget (vote on account), the funds to the extent of 50% only out of budget outlay for each work in 2024-25 will be released,” it added.
Each work shall be 100% physically verified and third party test inspections shall be conducted in respect of high value works, the order said.
“E-tenders shall be invited for the entire project cost as per the administrative approval to the project and fragmentation of projects, while tendering, is strictly prohibited. The instances of part tendering by the implementing agencies, if noticed at any stage, shall be dealt with strictly,” it added.
As per the order, the Departments/DDCs shall initiate the e-tendering process immediately in the month of April, 2024 and shall ensure that each e-NIT must be issued by or before 30th April, 2024. 23. The Departments/DDCs shall ensure that the exercise of tendering is carried out in a time bound manner and all the tendering processes must be concluded by or before 31st May, 2024. The progress in this regard shall be reviewed by the Finance Department in the month of June, 2024, the order said.
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