Business Standard: New Delhi: Sunday, March 01, 2015.
Over Rs 208
crore has been allocated to the Ministry of Personnel for 2015-16 to augment
its training facilities for bureaucrats.
In the budget
presented today by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Rs 208.91 crore has been
earmarked for the Ministry to meet establishment-related expenditure of
Institute of Secretariat Training and Management (ISTM), here and Lal Bahadur
Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie.
Both the ISTM
and LBSNAA arrange several training programmes including foundation courses,
refresher courses and mid-career training among others to equip all levels or
grades of secretarial functionaries with adequate exposure to the latest rules
and regulations and aptitude.
The grant
include expenditure on domestic or overseas travel, course fees etc in respect
of Central Secretariat Service and Central Secretariat Stenographers Service
officials who are to undergo mandatory training at ISTM as a pre-condition for
consideration for promotion to higher grade, according to the Demand of Grants
of the Ministry.
The Ministry
of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension had got Rs 205.66 crore in 2014-15.
The allocation was revised to Rs 179.48 crore for the ongoing fiscal.
The Finance
Minister has also proposed to increase by over Rs 13 crore to Rs 43.55 crore
the budgetary allocation for Central Information Commission (CIC) and Public
Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) for 2015-16.
The grant of
Rs 43.55 crore is to meet establishment related expenditure of PESB and CIC.
This also includes provision for construction of office building of the CIC,
dak digitization, setting up of video conferencing facilities, preparation of
publicity material on RTI, setting up of call centre and establishment of wing
for transparency and accountability studies for the transparency watchdog.
The Finance
Ministry had given Rs 30.32 crore for the CIC and PESB in the ongoing fiscal
which was later revised to Rs 24 crore.
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