1)The Secretary, shall discharge such powers and functions as conferred and delegated on him by or under any act or rule for the time being in force inter alia, it includes that, a) He shall entitle to attend each meeting and to take part in the proceedings of the meeting of the Board. Provided that he shall not be entitled to cast his vote.
b) He shall record or make to record the minute of the proceedings in each meeting of the board.
c) He shall give his opinion or any clarification in connection with any resolution placed or any question put before the meeting, d) He shall execute all resolutions and orders of the Board; provided that, if any difficulties arise in execution of resolutions or orders, it shall be reported to the board in its next meeting and take steps according to the directions of the Board.
e) He shall supervise and control all officers and staff of the Board.
f) He shall have custody of all records and papers, works and projects executed and under execution and the letter correspondences made under the authority of the Board or his own power in connection with the affairs/business of the Board.
g) He shall supervise each work carried out by the Board and take steps for speedy execution of the work and report the Board in case of any omissions or slow progress found in such execution of the work.
h) He shall conduct special study and survey for the development of BayaluSeeme area or any special area and the part thereof, as he may think fit with the consultation of prominent experts or consultants of the State Government or non Government organisation and place the report thereon with its opinion for the consideration of the Board.
i) He shall make special evaluation or audit of any particular project and scheme which is completed or intended to be implemented in the said area with the consultation of such experts or consultants and reports thereon shall be placed before the Board and the Government along with his remarks.
4 j) He shall take speedy action to get rid of any irregularities suggested by the auditor.
k)He shall exercise all powers of the PrincipalChief of the Department which are specified in the Hand Book for financial officers (it is common to all Departments) as amended from time to time along with any separate or special powers delegated to them by or under this act.
l) He shall be competent to get approval to re-appropriate the unspent amount from any Department to another Department. Provided that the amount appropriatedso by the Department shall not exceed the ceiling of 10% of the amount basically allocated to that Department.
m)He shall examine the schemes and projects including the works and supplieseither on his own or by his subordinate officers.
n) He shall have the power to enter into an agreement in such a way and manner as operated by the concerned developmental department for such a similar purpose.
Provided that he shall not enter into any agreement with an amount exceedingRs. fifty lakhs, without the prior approval of the State Government.
o) He shall have the power to bear the expenditure not exceeding Rs.
Five Lakh at a time.
CHAPTER -3 Plan and Budget Estimation of the Board
(6) Preparation of Plan and Budget Estimation:
1) The Board, after preparing the following forms shall send to the State Government for approval before the 1st December every year, namely;
a) In Form No.1, Budget for the upcoming financial year.
b) In Form No.2, annual plan.
5 c)ASchedule of the staff including the officers who are already working and the details of the posts to be filled up during the next year shall be sent in Form No.3.
2)The annual plan, inter alia, shall include:
a) a coherent intuitional and financial descriptions of schemes and projects proposed by the Board for allocating amount either partially or fully during the next financial year b) and other descriptions as may be required by the State Government.
3)The budget, inter alia, shall include:
a) estimates of receipts including the grants received from the Government, the loans borrowed from different sources and theother income by excluding revenue account and capital account for the forthcoming financial year.
b) The estimated expenditures on schemes and projects which are under execution or have been intended to be executed;
expenditure on committee if any, other salaries and allowances of staff and officers, contingencies, stocks; expenditure on equipments and machines including motor vehicles excluding the revenue account and capital account for the forthcoming year.
c) other descriptions which may be required by the State Government, 4) The State Government may, along with the modifications as it may think fit, sanction annual budget and list of staff sent to it.
7) Supplementary Plan and Budget:- 1) The Board may submit the supplementary plan and budget and additional staff list, if any, at any time in a year in connection with annual plan sanctioned under section 12 of the Act, to the State Government for approval.
6 2) The Board may, in consultation with the concerned development Department, Zilla Panchayats and executive agencies, modify any project or scheme or any part thereof included in the plan sanctioned by the Government at any time.
Provided that, if it has contained anexpenditure more than 25% of the amount originally sanctioned for its operations or if it is prejudicial to the main scope and object of such project or any plans or schemes thereof, any such modification shall not be done without the prior sanction of the Government.
3) The Board shall not execute any schemes or projects except it is included in annual plan or supplementary Plan of the Board.
4) The Board shall not be competent to carry out any trade or financial activities for profit other than the execution of any project or scheme approved by it in accordance with the plan.
8) Presentation of Accounts and Budget:- 1) The Secretary, after preparing a complete accounts of actual and anticipated receipts and expenditures for the ensuing financial year ending on 31st March with a budget estimate of anticipated receipts and expenditures for the ensuing financial year beginning on 1st April, shall be placed before the meeting to be held between the month of 1st November and 1st January.
2) The Board, thereafter, shall determine the appropriations and ways and means included in the budget for the ensuing financial years beginning on 1st April and send the budget as approved by the Board to the Government before such date as may be fixed by the Government.
3) In such budget, the board, inter alia, shall:
7 a) make adequate and proper provision to the services as may be required for performing various duties prescribed on the Board under this Act or any other Law.
b) The Board shall incur all instalments of Principal amount and interest thereon which may be liable to pay by the Board in connection with the loan agreements entered into by the Board itself subject to post facto sanctions, terms and conditions. The Board may make further arrangements to such things subject to these rules and regulations.
c) Shall allow the income amount and an arrears not less than the percentage of the income which may be prescribed by the Government from time to time in the end of the said year.
d) if the Board is failed to approve the budget estimate on or before the date laid down in the sub-rule (1), the Secretary shall forward the same to the Government and the Government, with or without modification, shall approve the same. The budget approved so shall be certified by the Government and then, it shall be deemed to have been duly approved by the Board. ////