G.O.(Ms).No.56, Sitting Fees for Non-Official Expert Group Members, 2018

What the document does

Government Order (Ms.) No. 56 dated 9 July 2018, issued by the Planning, Development and Special Initiatives (ST.2&E) Department, provides annual funding for sitting fees payable to five non-official members of an Expert Group. The group was constituted to support the estimation and compilation of Gross State Domestic Product and Net State Domestic Product using the base year 2011-2012.

The government sanctioned Rs.1,20,000 per year from 2018-2019 onwards for these sitting fees. An earlier government order had provided a sitting fee of Rs.2,000 per sitting to the five non-official members.

Who it affects

Government Order (Ms.) No. 56 directly concerns:

• The five non-official members of the Expert Group.
• The Department of Economics and Statistics.
• The Additional Chief Secretary and Commissioner of the Department of Economics and Statistics, who is authorised to incur the sanctioned expenditure.
• Government finance, accounts and payment authorities responsible for allocating and recording the expenditure.

Property buyers, owners, developers and land professionals are not given any duties, rights or benefits under the document. It contains no provision about title, patta, survey boundaries, land classification, registration, planning permission or change of land use.

Key provisions

Government Order (Ms.) No. 56 contains the following financial and administrative directions:

• Rs.1,20,000 is sanctioned annually from 2018-2019 onwards for sitting fees to the five non-official Expert Group members.
• The expenditure is assigned to the stated government account head for census, surveys and statistics, income estimates, and remuneration for professional and special services.
• Additional funds were to be provided through the Revised Estimate or Final Modified Appropriation for 2018-2019.
• Pending that funding provision, the Additional Chief Secretary and Commissioner of the Department of Economics and Statistics was authorised to incur the expenditure.
• The expenditure was to be included in proposals sent to the Finance (Public) Department.
• The Finance Department gave its concurrence on 6 July 2018, with Additional Sanction Ledger No. 611.

Relevance to land and property

Government Order (Ms.) No. 56 is an administrative funding approval for official economic statistics work. It does not alter any land record, property right, approval process, fee payable by a property owner, or land administration procedure.