Proposals for Cabinet consideration - Instructions
The cabinet Secretary notes that sometimes Departments are observed to be bringing final notes for consideration of the Cabinet/Cabinet Committees which are substantially different from the original notes circulated to Ministries/Departments at the time of inter-ministerial consultations. This practice renders the institutional mechanism of inter-ministerial consultations infructuous, while giving the impression that requisite inter-ministerial consultations have been undertaken.
So he wants the Secretaries of the Departments to ensure that proposals contained in the final note forwarded by the sponsoring Ministry/Department to the Cabinet Secretariat should be the same as those included in the note circulated to Ministries/Departments at the time of inter-ministerial consultations. If a sponsoring Ministry/Department makes a substantive change in original proposals after inter-ministerial consultations, it would be incumbent on them to re-circulate the note for completing inter-ministerial consultations.