Government of Punjab Allocation of Business Rules, 2007

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GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB

ALLOCATION OF BUSINESS
RULES, 2007

(As on 31/12/2013)
FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY

GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB

ALLOCATION OF BUSINESS
RULES, 2007

(As on 31/12/2013)
"Allocation of Business Rules" was last updated in 2007. Since then,
there have been as many as 13 amendments including creation of 6 departments.
The document has been revised as on 31.12.2013 and would be continuously
updated and made available on the website of the Department of Co-ordination
(http://www.pbcoordination.gov.in).

19th February,2014 Sanjay Kumar, IAS,
Principal Secretary General Administration (CAC)
INDEX

SN Name of the Department Pages

1. Agriculture and Forests 1-6
2. Animal Husbandry and Fisheries 7-8
3. Civil Aviation 9
4. Cooperation 10
5. Diary Development 11
6. Defence Services Welfare 12-13
7. Education 14-17
8. Elections 18
9. Employment Generation & Training 19-21
10. Excise and Taxation 22
11. Finance 23-27
12. Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs 28-29
13. Food Processing 30
14. General Administration 31-34
15. Governance Reforms 35-36
16. Health & Family Welfare 37-39
17. Home Affairs and Justice 40-48
18. Housing and Urban Development 49-50
19. Industries and Commerce 51-55
20. Information & Public Relations 56
21. Investment Promotion 57
22. Information Technology 58
23. Irrigation & Power 59-60
24. Labour 61-63
25. Legal & Legislative Affairs 64
26. Local Government 65-66
27. Medical Education & Research 67-68
28. NRIs Affairs 69-71
29. New and Renewable Energy Sources 72
30. Parliamentary Affairs 73-74
31. Personnel 75-81
32. Planning 82-83
33. Printing & Stationery 84
34. Programme Implementation 85
35. Public Works 86-87
36. Removal of Grievances 88
37. Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster 89-94
Management
38. Rural Development & Panchayats 95-97
39. Science, Technology And Environment - 98-99
40. Social Security 100-101
41. Sports and Youth Services 102-103
42. Technical Education and Industrial Training 104
43. Tourism and Cultural Affairs 105
44. Transport 106
45. Vigilance 107
46. Water Supply and Sanitation 108
47. Welfare of Scheduled Castes & Backward Classes 109-111
48. Women and Child Development 112-113
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
(GENERAL CO-ORDINATION BRANCH)

No.1/5/2002-GC(2)/ 4007 - In supersession of the Government of Punjab,
Department of General Administration No. 1/5/02-GC(2)/6473 dated the 6th April,1994
and in exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (2) and (3) of article 166 of the
Constitution of India, and all other powers enabling me in this behalf, I,S.F.Rodrigues,
Governor of Punjab, hereby make the following rules, namely :-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Government of Punjab
Allocation of Business Rules, 2007.
(2) They shall come into force at once.
2. The business of the Government of the State of Punjab shall be transacted in the
Departments specified in the Schedule annexed to these rules and shall be
classified and distributed among those Departments as laid down therein.
3. The Governor shall, on the advice of the Chief Minister, allot among the Ministers
the business of the Government by assigning one or more Departments to the
charge of a Minister:
Provided that nothing in this rule shall prevent the assigning of one
Department to the charge of more than one Minister.
Provided further that if any Department is not allotted to any Minister
or a Minister dies, or tenders his resignation from the Council of Ministers or
the Department falls vacant due to any other reason, such department(s) shall be
deemed to have been allotted to the Chief Minister.
4. Each Department of the Government of Punjab shall consist of the Secretary to
the Government of Punjab who shall be the official head of the Department and
of such other officers and officials subordinate to him as the State Government
may determine:

Provided that -

(a) more than one Department may be placed in the charge of the same
Secretary; and
(b) the work of a Department may be divided between two or more
Secretaries.

Dated, Chandigarh, Gen. (Retd.)S.F.Rodrigues,
the 29th July, 2009 Governor of Punjab

Dated, Chandigarh, S.C. Aggrawal
the 3rd August, 2009 Chief Secretary
to Government of Punjab

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THE SCHEDULE
(See Rule 2)
1. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTS
(A) AGRICULTURE WING
1. Establishment of Agriculture Wing.
2. Administration of the following Acts, Orders and Rules namely -
(a) the Cotton Transport Act, 1923;
(b) the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937;
(c) the East Punjab Cotton Statistics Act,1948;
(d) the East Punjab Agricultural Pests, Diseases and Noxious
Weeds Act,1949;
(e) the East Punjab Improved Seeds and Seedlings Act, 1949;
(f) the Punjab Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act,
1953;
(g) the Punjab Sugarcane (Regulation of Purchase and
Supply) Act, 1953;
(h) the Cotton (Control) Order, 1955;
(i) the Sugarcane (Control) Order, 1956;
(j) the Fertilizer (Control) Order, 1957;
(k) the Punjab Warehouses Act, 1957;
(l) the Punjab Reclamation of Land Act, 1959;
(m) the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961;
(n) the Warehousing Corporation Act,1962;
(o) the Seeds Act, 1966;
(p) the Insecticides Act, 1968;
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(q) the Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities
Act,1970;
(r) the Tractors (Distribution and Sale) Control Order,1971;
(s) the Punjab Cold Storage Order,1979; and
(t) the Punjab Rural Development Act, 1987.
3. Agricultural Extension- Experimental and demonstration farms
including seed farms, introduction of improved method of farming
and supply of inputs, crop competitions, Rabi and Kharif
campaign, dissemination of agricultural information, and publicity.
4. State Ground Water Board, legislation relating to ground water,
ground water survey and investigation, irrigation through
tubewells and percolation wells, boring operations and trial bores
for agricultural purposes, grant of loans and subsidies.
5. All matters relating to -
(a) the Punjab Land Development and Reclamation
Corporation;
(b) the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation;
(c) the Punjab Agro- Industries Corporation;
(d) the Punjab State Agricultural Marketing Board;
(e) the Land Use Board, Punjab;
(f) the Seed Certification Authority; and
(g) the Punjab State Seeds Corporation.
6. All matters relating to -
(a) agro-industries;
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(b) land development and reclamation, including supply of
gypsum;
(c) vegetable preservation;
(d) crop insurance.
7. Farmer training and education including study abroad and in the local
Agricultural Universities.
8. Seed Production and Distribution - seed testing and quality control, seed
testing laboratories, maintenance of seed farms and subsidy on seeds.
9. Arrangements for supply of fertilizers and micronutrients and setting up
soil testing laboratories.
10. Plant protection and prevention of insects and pests and diseases,
including locust control, weed control, ground and aerial spray on crops
and supply of insecticides.
11. Agricultural Economics and Statistics- To conduct crop cutting
experiments and agricultural census, surveys on export and import of
agricultural commodities.
12. Agricultural Engineering including agricultural implements, farm
machinery and setting up agro-service centres .
13. Storage and warehousing of food grains including small size facility of
storage and warehousing at farm level and assessment of storage
capacity for storage of food grains to be procured by the Department of
Food and Supplies and other agencies.
14. Agricultural Marketing and Quality Control- Setting up of laboratories,
marketing and intelligence, grading of agricultural produce and
marketing, broadcasting and news service.
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