Brochure on items of work handled in various Divisions and Sections of Ministry of Environment and Forests

 

June 2003

 

XXIII    41       PLAN  CO-ORDINATION  DIVISION (PC)

 

a)                 Preparation of Five Year / Annual Plan / Annual Action Plan of the Ministry.

b)                 Monthly D.O. from Secretary to the Cabinet Secretary informing about the important activities of the Ministry.

c)                  Monthly Summary for the Cabinet on the important activities of the Ministry.

d)                 Half Yearly Progress Report on Point No. 16 & 17 of the 20 Point Programme to the Department of Programme Implementation.

e)                 Review of Monthly Expenditure / Preparation of Statements on Scheme-wise Expenditure on month-to-month basis.

f)                    Review of Annual Action Plan by Secretary (E&F).

g)                 Coordination of the environmentally friendly proposals/schemes relating to fiscal incentives.

h)                 Appointment of Nodal Officers for States / UTs to expedite disposal of pending issues etc.

i)                    Appointment of Nodal Officers for offering comments on various Central Schemes of other Ministries.

j)                    Coordination of Plan discussions in Planning Commission.

k)                  Export Promotion Cell.

l)                    Maters relating to State Plans.

m)               Coordination on Plan Scheme matters.

n)                 Women Cell and matters relating to National Commission for Women.

o)                 Budget allocation for various Centres (including the new Centre of Excellence).

p)                 Coordination of  the Expenditure figures for various schemes as and when required.

q)                 Standing Committee on the Time and Cost over run of Projects.

r)                   Quarterly Progress Report in respect of Central Finance Projects as well as Centrally Sponsored Schemes being implemented in the State of J&K.

s)                  Release of funds/ grants under Plan Schemes where specific scheme/ schemes has/have not been mentioned and where co-ordination work is involved.

t)                    Tribal Sub-plan

u)                 Natural Resources Accounting & Environmental profile.

 

42        INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION (IT )

 

a)                 Software development/ system, planning, design and development.

b)                 Algorithem, design, search algorithms.

c)                  Development of Computerised data bases on environment. 

d)                 Data Processing, data management, analysis and presentation.

e)                 Turning raw data into real information.

f)                    Data Processing support to the vicious activities of the Ministry.

g)                 Organisation of training programme for various officers/ staff of the Ministry.

h)                 Monitoring of Very Important References for Secretary (E&F)

i)                    E-mail facilities to the Divisions.

j)                    Planning  and Supervising, operation and utilisation of Computer resources.

k)                  Examination & finalization of Technical specification/ Procurement of IT Hardware/ Software.

l)                    Finalisation of Technical Specification/ Procurement of IT Hardware/ software.

m)               Imparting Technical support to various Scientists/ Officers of the Ministry for automation through Micro-processors.