Constitutional guarantees and provisions, Union and State laws as well as policies and programmes for economic and social development are relevant to the daily lives of the people only to the extent they are implemented honestly and efficiently. The Constitution of India gives a special role and responsibility to the State Governments for preserving public order and ensuring the welfare of citizens. The Seventh Schedule which clearly demarcates the legislative and functional domain of the Union and the States, highlights the critical role envisaged for State Governments in fulfilling the aspirations set out in the Directive Principles of State Policy.
State secretariat is the nerve center of state administration. It consists of several ministries and departments of state government. The Ministries, departments are headed politically by the ministers and administratively by the secretaries. The chief secretary is the head of the entire state secretariat, while, a secretary is head of one or two departments. He is usually a senior IAS officer. Here, it should be noted that the secretary is a secretary to the state government as a whole and not to the individual minister concern.
The State Secretariat performs mainly the following functions:
- To assist the Minister in the fulfilment of his task.
- To formulate the policies and programmes of the state government.
- To coordinate amongst the programmes of the state government.
- To prepare the state budget.
- To frame legislation, rules and regulations.
- To review the results of the execution of the policy.
- To maintain contacts with Central and other State governments.
- To receive the complaints, representations and appeals from the people and solve them.
- To serve as a think-tank of the state government
Uttarakhand Government has an extensive bifurcation of departments for the effective administration of the state, following is the list of departments:-
- 20 Point Programme & Implementation (Department of Planning)
- Agriculture
- Accounts & Entitlement
- Animal Husbandry
- Budget
- Chief Development Officer
- Commercial Tax
- Dairy development
- Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre
- Election
- Employment
- Entertainment tax/ trade tax
- Excise
- Firms, Societies and Chitfunds
- Fisheries
- Food and Civil Supplies
- Forest
- Geology and geomining unit
- Higher Education
- Information
- Irrigation
- ITDA
- Labour
- Medical Education
- Medical, Health and Family Welfare
- Panchayati Raj
- Police
- Public Works
- Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan
- Revenue
- Rural development
- Rural Engineering Service
- Sanskrit Education
- Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
- school education
- Sericulture
- Social welfare
- Sports
- Stamps & Registration
- State Horticulture Mission
- State Planning Department, Govt. of Uttarakhand
- Tourism
- Town and Country Planning
- Transport
- Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan
- Uttarakhand Renewable Energy Development Agency
- Uttarakhand Rural Roads Development Agency
- Vigilance
- Women Empowerment and Child Development
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