Tighten your belts - Fiscal Discipline needed - Expenditure Secretary
EXPENDITURE Secretary Sumit Bose has written to all Secretaries to the Government of India to ensure a deep cut in their expenditure so that more funds are available for development.
Seminars and workshops are to be restricted and there should be a ten per cent cut in Budget. No meetings and seminars in five star hotels; No more buying of vehicles except for the defence forces; Foreign travel is to be cut to the minimum.
THERE WILL BE A TOTAL BAN ON CREATION OF POSTS. (What will happen to all those posts to be created in the Revenue Department under cadre review?)
These instructions are routinely issued every year and nobody really takes them seriously.