The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 15] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1969/MAGHA 4, 1890
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MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Economic Affairs)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi the 24th January 1969
G.S.R. 167.—In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of paragraph 11 of the Government of India (Audit and Accounts) Order, 1936, as adapted by the India (Pro- visional Constitution) Order, 1947, read with article 149 of the Constitution, the Presi- dent, after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, hereby makes the following rules, namely :—
1. Short title and commencement—(1) These rules may be called the Departmentalisa- tion of Telecommunications Accounts Rules, 1969.
(2) They shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of March, 1968.
2. Definitions.—In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "Chief Accounting Authority" means the Secretary to the government of India in the Department of Communications:
(b) "telecommunications" means the telegraphs, telephone and wireless activities of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs.
38 JHE GAZETTE. OT INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [ P ^T " - S E C. B(i>]accounts of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in relation to telecommunications and the Chief Accounting Authority shall, in accordance with such programme as may be determined with the concurrence of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, take over the responsibility aforesaid :
Provided that the accounts of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in relation to telecommunications, including tho Profit and Loss Account and the Balance Sheet, shall be prepared in such form as may be determined with the concurrence of the Comptroller and Auditor General:
Provided further that subsidiary instructions relating to the compilation of the accounts of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in relation to telecommunications and other matters ancillary Uiercto ahall be issued by the Chief Accounting Authority in consultation with tho Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
4. Responsibilities of the Chief Accounting Authority.—(1) As and when the Chief Accounting Authority takes over the responsibility referred to in rule 3, he shall be les- ponsible for—
(a) the preparation of monthly Consolidated Accounts of the Department of Posts and Tdenraphs in relation to telecommunications the responsibilities for the keeping of the accounts of which have been taken ovci by the Chief Account- ing Authority, and the submission thereof to the Accountant General, Posts and Telegraphs (in such form and on such dates as may be determined in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India) for in- cotporalion in the accounts of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs as a whole;
(b) the maintenance of Provident Fund Accounts, accounts of loans and advances, detailed books and disbursers account as well as the work relating to review of balances, verification of pensions, personal claims of Gazetted C<*lcrs, settlement n! claims of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in relation to telecommunications and other Departments;
(c) the preparation of the annual Appropriation Accounts of the Department of Posts and 1 elegraphs in relation to telecommunications, the responsibilities for the keeping of the accounts of which have been, under these rules, taken over by him and for the submission of such Appropriation Accounts to the Ac- countant General, Posts and Telegraphs: and
(d) the preparation of the annual Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet of the Department of Posts and Tele<{raphs in relation to telecommunications, nn accrual and liability basis in accordance with normal commercial principles, and such Profit and Loss Account and Balance Shset shall be in addition to the Appropriation Accounts and the Profit and Loss Account which is prepared at present purely on cash basis.
(2) Subject to the overall control and responsibility of the Chief Accounting Authority, the Head of the Posts and Telegraphs Circles, namely, the Post Master General or the General Manager or District Manager, Telephones, or the General Manager, Workshops, or the Chief Controller of Telegraphs Stores, or the Chief Accounts Office, Telecraphs Ch-ck Office, as the case may be. shall perform the accounting work relating to the Circle or Unit under his charge.
[No. F.l(2)-B/69.]
A. R. SHIRALI, Jt. Secy i