269 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA/BHARAT SARKAR MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS/GRIH MANTRALAYA New Delhi, the 13 th March, 1985. NOTIFICATION In exercise of the powers conferred by article 239 of the Constitution and Section 46 of the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 (20 of 1963), and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the President makes the following rules to amend the Business of the Government of Pondicherry (Allocation) Rules, 1963, namely:-
1. These rules may be called the Business of the Government of Pondicherry (Allocation) Amendment Rules, 1985.
2. In the Business of the Government of Pondicherry (Allocation) Rules, 1963, for the schedule, the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely:- THE SCHEDULE (see rule 3) I. Confidential and Cabinet Department:
1. Political and Confidential matters
2. Cabinet Affairs, including dissolution of the Legislative Assembly and Governor’s address.
3. Rules of Business and Allocation of Business Rules
4. Defence of India Act and Rules
5. Anti-Corruption and Vigilance
6. All matters connected with ‘Militarv’
7. Control over the Administrators of Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam
8. Matters relating to Southern Zonal Council
9. All matters relating to Raj Nivas
10. Salaries and Allowances of Ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker/Members including Establishment of Council of Ministers.
11. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. II. Home Department:
1. Law and Order
2. Police i.e. all matters relating to Police Organisation of Pondicherry including Armed Police, maintenance of Public Security.
3. Wireless 270
4. Arms Act – Arms, Fire Arms and Explosives,
5. National Integration
6. Foreigners/Passports and Visas
7. Jails
8. Citizenship and Naturalization
9. Extradition and Civil Processes.
10. Fire Services
11. Home Guards
12. Correspondence with the consulate General of France in Pondicherry
13. Political Sufferers
14. Civil Defence
15. Freedom Fighters
16. Preventive Detention
17. Linguistic Minorities
18. Rehabilitation of Ex-servicemen
19. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department III. General Administration Department:
1. National Holidays and Ceremonial Occasions
2. Visits of V.I.Ps.
3. Stationery and Printing including Government Press
4. Government Gazette
5. Administration Report
6. Secretariat Library
7. Central Records Branch
8. Printing Presses
9. Newspapers and Periodicals
10. Telephones/Liveries
11. Office Accommodation
12. Information
13. Publicity
14. Staff Cars
15. Protocol
16. Official Language
17. Post and Telegraph
18. Guest Houses
19. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. IV. Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms:
1. All matters relating to I.A.S, I.P.S and P.C.S. cadres
2. Advice on recruitment rules
3. Correspondence with U.P.S.C. 271
4. Civil list
5. Discipline and Appeal relating to the Services
6. Service conditions of Ex-French employees
7. Organisation and Methods Inspection/Work Study
8. Administrative Reforms
9. Reservation of vacancies for SC/ST/Ex-Servicemen etc.
10. Reservation for physically handicapped
11. Training of Administrative personnel
12. Departmental Examinations and test for common categories
13. Deputation and Foreign Service
14. Office Procedure/Office Manual
15. Administrative Inspections
16. All matters relating to recruitment/posting/transfer and promotion of all common category posts. V. Finance Department:
1. Budget and Accounts of the Union Territory
2. Rules and orders regarding control of expenditure and financial procedures.
3. Interpretation of Financial and Accounts Rules
4. Scrutiny of Financial sanctions
5. Delegation of financial powers
6. Pension and Gratuity
7. Provident Funds
8. The Consolidated Fund of the Union Territory
9. The Contingency Fund of the Union Territory
10. The Chief Ministers Discretionary Grant/The Chief Minister’s Welfare Fund/Compassionate Funds.
11. Finance Committee/Estimates Committees/Public Accounts Committee
12. Report of the Auditor General/Controller General
13. Stamps
14. Commercial Taxes
15. Financial Resources
16. Financial Inspections
17. National Small Savings Scheme/Compulsory Deposit Scheme
18. Salaries and Allowances
19. Local Fund Audit
20. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. VI. Revenue Department:
1. Land Revenue and Collection
2. Land Records and Tenures, Land Records Survey and Settlement 272
3. Recoveries of Public Demands
4. Lease of Government lands
5. Acquisition and Requisition of lands on behalf of the Government
6. Registration
7. Relief to victims of natural calamities
8. Weights and Measures
9. House Rent Control
10. Land Records
11. Excise
12. Cinematograph Act
13. Civil Supplies
14. Prevention of Adulteration of food stuffs and other articles
15. Gold Control
16. Cement Control
17. Licencing of Rice Mills and matters connected with wheat products
18. Urban land ceiling
19. Treasure Trove
20. Eviction of unauthorized occupants from public premises
21. Administration of Hindu Religious Institutions/Endowments
22. Wakfs
23. Money lenders, money lending, chit funds
24. Procurement of paddy and rice
25. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. VII. Planning Department:
1. Planning in all aspects, including First year Plans
2. Economics and Statistics
3. Census
4. Liaison with Institutional Financing Agencies
5. Training of technical personnel
6. Monitoring and Evaluation
7. Research
8. Coordination
9. Manpower Planning
10. Non-conventional sources of energy
11. Computerisation
12. Science and Technology
13. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. VIII. Department of Rural Development:
1. Agriculture
2. Animal Husbandry including Dairying 273
3. Fisheries
4. Co-operation
5. Community Development
6. Rural Employment Schemes/Programmes
7. Soil Conservation
8. Wild Life and Forestry
9. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. IX. Department of Industrial Development:
1. Industries
2. Power
3. Port
4. Tourism
5. Handlooms/Power looms
6. Handicrafts
7. Distribution of scarce raw materials to industries
8. Geology and Mines
9. Iron, Steel and Coal Control
10. Commerce
11. Civil Aviation
12. Transport
13. Railways
14. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. X. Health and Welfare Department:
1. (a) Medical
(b) Public Health
(c) Family Welfare
(d) Nursing School (ESI)
(e) Drug control.
2. (a) Scheduled Caste Welfare
(b) Social Welfare- (i) Nutrition
(ii) Child Welfare
(iii) Women Welfare
(iv) Handicapped Welfare
(v) Social Defence
(vi) Welfare of the aged and inform destitutes widows etc.
(c) Other Backward Classes Welfare.
3. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. 274 XI. Education Department:
1. Pre-primary Education
2. Primary Education
3. Middle and Secondary Education
4. Higher Secondary Education
5. Collegiate Education/University Education
6. Technical Education
7. Continuing Education
8. Adult Education
9. Physical Education
10. Audio-visual Education
11. N.C.C
12. Bal Bhavans
13. Sports
14. Youth Services
15. Art and Culture-
(a) Libraries
(b) Museums
(c) Archives
(d) Academies
(e) Grant-in-aid for voluntary Cultural Organisations
(f) Protection of Ancient and Historical Monuments.
16. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. XII. Local Administration and Public Works Department:
1. Municipalities
2. Commune Panchayats/Village Panchayats
3. Comite de Bienfaisance
4. Housing
5. Town and Country Planning
6. Urban Development and Planning Authorities
7. Environment
8. Slum Improvement
9. Public Health Engineering
10. Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation
11. Drainage ad Sewerage
12. Buildings
13. Roads and Bridges etc.
14. Irrigation and Flood Control
15. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. 275 XIII. Law Department:
1. Drafting and Scrutiny of Bills and Statutory Rules, Notifications, Orders and Bye-law.
2. Administration of justice including courts
3. Appeals against acquittals and applications for enhancements of sentences
4. Advice on all legal matters
5. Supervision of Government Litigation, including appointment and remuneration of Government Pleaders, Public Prosecutors, special Counsels, etc.
6. Legacies and Inter-State properties.
7. Ex-French Laws and Rules and their interpretation
8. Elections
9. Legal Practitioner and Bar Councils
10. Civil Law Procedures
11. Official receivers
12. Notary Public
13. Judicial Reforms
14. Legal Aid to Weaker Sections
15. Scrutiny of Agreement
16. Writing off any decretal dues
17. Arbitrators
18. Translation of State Acts and Rules, Regulation etc. into Tamil and other languages.
19. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. XIV. Labour Department:
1. All matters relating to Labour Welfare, including conditions of Labour, Minimum Wages, Provident Funds and Amenities for Labour.
2. National Employment Services and Employment Exchange
3. Industrial and Labour Disputes, Conciliation and Arbitration.
4. Resettlement of Labour
5. Factories and Boilers
6. Apprentices Training
7. Trade Unions
8. Employees’ State Insurance
9. Shops and Commercial Establishments
10. Bounded Labour
11. All other matters pertaining to conditions of employment including Industrial Training Institutes.
12. Recruitment/posting/promotion and transfer of all posts exclusive to this Department. H.V. GOSWAMI, Joint Secretary to the Government of India, (U-11022/2/85-UIL)