Acting on the complaints that statutory bodies were being ignored in policy decisions, prime minister Manmohan Singh has made mandatory for the ministries to keep these bodies in loop before finalising cabinet notes concerning their domains.
Acting on the complaints that statutory bodies were being ignored in policy decisions, prime minister Manmohan Singh has made mandatory for the ministries to keep these bodies in loop before finalising cabinet notes concerning their domains.
At the behest of the PM, the cabinet secretariat has asked all central ministries and departments to consult statutory commissions particularly the National Commission of Scheduled Castes and National Commission of Scheduled Tribes in every decision related to these spheres. The ministries were reminded that these bodies hold constitutional status and it was a constitutional requirement to consult them.
Both these commissions had pleaded that ministries were hardly taking their inputs or consulting them, while finalising notes for the cabinet. They had also complained that government bodies were not abiding their decisions. Even some bodies likes the MCD, BSNL and KVC have engaged the National Commission of Scheduled Castes in a legal battle, which it said was wastage of time, money and undermining the authority of a statutory body.
The cabinet secretariat order issued in the name of director KL Sharma reminds the government departments that Article 338(9) and 338A(9) mandates that “the Union and every state commission shall consult the Commissions on all major policy matters affecting SCs/STs.”
Further, every cabinet note shall incorporate the views of the concerned commission along with the views of the administrative ministry for the consideration of council of ministers.
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