State yet to train finance & accounts staff Vikas Sharma Tribune News Service Jammu, August 4 Jammu and Kashmir is among the 10 states and union territories which have yet to conduct training programmes for their finance and accounts staff for effective registration of agencies implementing the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) under the Central Plan Scheme Monitoring System (CPSMS). The other states and union territories which have been included in this category are Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Delhi, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. This was revealed in the recently concluded 37th quarterly review meeting of the Finance Controllers of state implementation societies of the SSA held in New Delhi. The meeting was chaired by Virender Singh, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). It was attended by Finance Controllers of all state implementation societies except Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Puducherry and Sikkim. Jammu and Kashmir has the only state implementation society which has not started the registration of SSA implementing agencies under the CPSMS. During the crucial meeting, Finance Controllers had stressed on the need to ensure that the finance and accounts staff were trained adequately. They directed that information regarding the preparation of bank reconciliation statement should immediately be provided by the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Lakshadweep and Sikkim. The Deputy Secretary, MHRD, advised experts from the office of the Controller General of Accounts to be more responsive to the problems being faced by the states and union territories which had not been able to make much headway in completing the registration of SSA implementing agencies under the CPSMS. He said the states and union territories could organise workshops, if needed, where experts from the office of the Controller General of Accounts could be invited to sort out the problems being faced by them in registration under the CPSMS. The Deputy Secretary said states were required to prioritise SSA implementation, interventions and important civil works in such a way that committed liabilities were not affected for want of funds. He added that the issue of outstanding advance needed to be taken seriously by the state and outstanding advances should be adjusted within the time-frame provided in the Manual on Financial Management and Procurement. Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Sikkim and Tamil Nadu had submitted the audit report for 2011-12 before the prescribed date of November 2012.
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