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FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE

ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2015-16 (01-04-2015 to 31-03-2016)

Contents Chapter-1 ............................................................................................................................................................. 3

1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3

1.1 Vision .................................................................................................................................................... 3

1. 2 Mission ................................................................................................................................................. 3

1.3 Objectives .............................................................................................................................................. 3

1.4 Centres at FPI ........................................................................................................................................ 4

1.5 Scope of Activities ................................................................................................................................ 4

1.6 Governing Council ................................................................................................................................ 4

1.7 FPI Infrastructure ................................................................................................................................... 5

1.8 IT Infrastructure: .................................................................................................................................. 5

1.9 Procurement and AMCs: ....................................................................................................................... 5

1.10 Library: ................................................................................................................................................ 6

Chapter-2 ............................................................................................................................................................. 8

2. Performance:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...8

2.1 Trainings conducted by Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) during the year 2015-16. .................................... 8

2.2 Design of training modules: .................................................................................................................. 8

2.3 Training for IES Probationers 2014 (II) Batch: ................................................................................... 10

2.4 Induction Training at FPI: ................................................................................................................... 10

2.5 Research & other activities: ................................................................................................................. 10

2.6 Consultancy: ........................................................................................................................................ 12

2.7 Research in progress: ........................................................................................................................... 12

2.8 Others: ................................................................................................................................................. 12

2.9 Budget: ................................................................................................................................................ 13

2.10 Expenditure: ...................................................................................................................................... 13

Chapter-3 ........................................................................................................................................................... 14

Chapter-4 ........................................................................................................................................................... 15

4.1 First part: Nil.………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….15


4.2 Second part: Nil.……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..15

4.3 Third part: Nil.………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..15

4.4 Fourth part:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..15

Chapter 5 ........................................................................................................................................................... 16

5. Achievements in Human Resources Management and Administrative activities……………………………….16

5.1 Human Resources: ............................................................................................................................... 16

5.2 Vacancy position and retirements: ...................................................................................................... 17

5.3 Outsourced staff:…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….17

5.4 Trainings and FPI representations: ...................................................................................................... 18

5.5 Higher qualification acquired: ............................................................................................................. 19

Mr. Maazuddin Khan, Special Officer ...................................................................................................... 19

5.6 Software:.............................................................................................................................................. 19

5.7 Administrative inspections: ................................................................................................................. 19


Chapter-1

1. Introduction

The Government established the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI)1in 2007. The setting up of FPI

signifies the commitment of the State to institutionalise the process of implementing the Karnataka

Fiscal Responsibility Act-2002 (KFRA) in letter and spirit. Thus, FPI is set up to assist Government

of Karnataka to;

enhance “informed” decision-making in state government and local bodies;

ensure that decision-making processes follow consistent and transparent principles, leading to

greater accountability and transparency in economic governance;

sustain the fiscal correction course by constantly upgrading the capacity of relevant institutions

1.1 Vision

To enhance quality of human capital engaged in public financial management, the outcome of

which enhances their efficiency, promotes a habit of adherence to prudential fiscal norms and

ensures value for money to citizens.

1. 2 Mission

The mission of FPI is ‘to position itself as the first point of reference’ for consultancy and

handholding for all the government sector administrative units by instilling a sense of fiscal

responsibility, by infusing matching practices and by providing its services at reasonable and

affordable cost to users within and outside the government system.

1.3 Objectives

FPI was created, inter alia, with the following objectives:

(i) To provide customized training to Government and Public Sector officers with relevant

research output on various aspects of financial planning, programme implementation, public

expenditure and asset management with focus on fiscal prudence.

(ii) To take up specialized research studies of immediate and long-term relevance to Government

and Public Sector entities on demand and also suomoto.

(iii) To produce reference manuals, templates, tools and standards for policy analysis, investment

appraisal, risk assessment and, performance monitoring methods and institutionalize the same.

(iv) To capture, document and disseminate next best practices relating to good economic

governance across government operations and to help departments, PSUs and all Government

entities in ensuring value for money spent.

1vide G.O. No. FD 33 GIE 2006 Bangalore Dated 8th January 2007


(v) To provide and manage the necessary physical infrastructure and managerial resources

efficiently to facilitate such training and research on an on-going basis.

1.4 Centres at FPI

Unlike a conventional training or research institute, the intrinsic objective of FPI is to provide

integrated solutions to problems, including the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation

relating to public resource use. The Institute functions as a Directorate under the administrative

control of the Finance Department. FPI’s activities as a training enterprise would be delivered

through the following five Centres;

(i) Public Resource Management

(ii) Public Expenditure Management

(iii) Financial Accountability and Decentralization

(iv) Planning, IT and Statistics.

(v) Project Management

1.5 Scope of Activities

The activities and services of FPI are expected to help imbibe the spirit of the Seventeen Principles

of fiscal management under the provisions of Sec 4 of the Karnataka Fiscal Responsibility Act-

2002. This is done through a four-fold approach -

(i) Customized training and continuous handholding for those trained.

(ii) Consulting and conducting research in conventional areas and also emerging and challenging

areas like Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), Goods and Services Tax (GST), environmental

economics, health economics etc.

(iii) Data-base management including helping departments in creating and managing data bank, and

(iv) Advocacy and outreach relating to fiscal management principles and responsibility.

1.6 Governing Council

A Governing Council (GC), under the Chairmanship of the Principal Secretary, Finance

Department, GoK, has been constituted by the government to oversee the functioning of the

Institute and to guide the Director, FPI. The other members of the GC are

1. Dr.K.P.Krishnan, Additional Secretary, Department of Land Resources,,GOI

2. The Principal Secretary, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, GoK,

3. The Principal Secretary, Planning Department, GoK,

4. The Principal Secretary, Revenue Department,

5. The Secretary (Budget & Resources), Finance Department,

6. The Commissioner, Commercial Taxes,

7. The Commissioner, Excise,

8. The Director General, Administrative Training Institute (ATI).

11th G.C meeting was conducted on 10/09/2015 to obtain approvals for the trainings conducted,

Budget & expenditure, to appoint short term consultants, procurements and infrastructure changes.


1.7 FPI Infrastructure

The FPI building has an Administrative block, Guest House, Hostel, Quarters for Director,

Faculty and staff.

1. The following civil works are completed

a) Officer Chambers

b) Facility Centre

c) Pigeon nets to windows

d) Grill works in Quarters.

2) The following works are partially completed:

a) Gym Room

b) Poly carbonate Roof top

1.8 IT Infrastructure:

1. Two servers were installed in 2nd Floor I.T room to facilitate hands on session to trainees in I.T.

related subjects.

2) Two class rooms Manthana 3 and 7 were converted in to Computer Labs by installing 30 thin

clients in each room.

3) Facility Centre was created at Hostel Block with 4 computers with internet facility for the

usage of trainees. Further FPI plans to set up a Xerox machine and other facilities.

The FPI website www.fpibangalore.gov.in was continually updated with the following

information:

a. Details of the training programmes conducted during 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16

b. Training Calendar 2015-16

c. Administrative, Annual and Technical Reports during the year 2015-16

d. Tender related documents during the year 2015-16.

e. NEWS & EVENTS continually updated with the training programmes to be organized

during the particular month.

f. Photo gallery link updated with the photos of the training programmes held during the year.

1.9 Procurement and AMCs:

During the year of report following items were procured :

Particulars

Commenci

ng Date Amount

Procurements

1 Painting & Portraits for Guest House Jun-15 29787.00

2 Flip chart Magnetic white board with stand Jun-15 8061.00

3 HP make hi-end IT Servers with software (2 No.) Nov-15 1818610.00

4 5 KVA online UPS with 120 minutes backup Dec-15 139598.00

5 Unified Threat Management ( UTM)devices with

software - WO issued Feb-16 971710.00


6 RDP make Thin Client devices with assceories (60 No.) Mar-16 2006926.00

7 Steel Furniture for Office & Hostel Mar-16 96753.00

8 22"LED TVs with Set Top Box for hostel (70 No.) Mar-16 1046920.00

9 Ricoh Heavy duty Copier/Network Printer -

DGS&D - RC ( WO issued) Mar-16 179600.00

To maintain the infrastructure facilities the following AMCs were entered.

AMCs

1

Comprehensive AMC of Dish wash Machine ( 1 No. @

hostel) Apr-15 47460

2 Security Service Contract Apr-15 2715000

3 AMC Electrical & Allied Works Apr-15 1181000

4 Comprehensive AMC of KONE Lift May-15 49407

5 Comprehensive AMC of EPABX systems Jul-15 98567

6 AMC of Civil & Allied Works Jul-15 804000

7 AMC of Bosch Audio Systems Aug-15 109440

8 Comprehensive AMC of Garden, Landscape Aug-15 1084000

9

Comprehensive AMC of Water Purifiers (19 No. of

different capacity) Nov-15 280000

1.10 Library:

FPI has a wide range of academic resources such as books, periodicals, online periodicals,

CDs/DVDs, reports. The Library at FPI is managed by a Librarian and an Assistant. Further, FPI

library is giving apprenticeship training for two trainee (Graduate and technical apprenticeship in

Library each). 3 (two graduate and one diploma) trainees have successfully completed 1 year

apprenticeship training. Library extends its services by providing newspapers and issues books for

resident trainees (Hostel and Guest house).

The library space at FPI building is designed to hold about 10,000 books in addition to space for

general reading, display of newspapers, new arrivals, workstation for library users, issue counter,

documentation and photocopying, Media vault DVD/CD albums and store room. The facility of

Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) has been installed. Barcode is done for all books and

assets in the library. Library resources consist of 3114 Books, 466 Bound Volumes of Reports and

Journals, 4894 General Reports, 370 CDs, 18 Periodicals, 16 Current Journals, 12 News Papers.

Apart from this FPI has British Council Library Membership, 6 e-Database Journal (SAGE),

70,000 e-books , 14000 e-Journals.

The Library is open on all days from 10.00 AM to 06.00 PM on all working days except

Government Holidays. On Training days the library is open from 9.00 AM to 7.00 PM.


Cataloguing and Classification:

Dewey decimal classification scheme is adopted for the processing of documents. All the

documents have been brought under computerized bibliographic control using e-Granthalaya

software by NIC. Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) search is provided to readers. The

newly accessioned books and working papers are displayed on a weekly basis. All the books and

assets in the library have been Bar Coded.


Chapter-2

2. Performance:

2.1 Trainings conducted by Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) during the year 2015-16.

Taking forward the scope of customized training and continuous handholding for those trained, a

significant start has been made by FPI in Residential Trainings and capacity building. The trainings

conducted by FPI during the previous year and the year of report are given below.

Sl.

No

Year No of

programmes

conducted

No of officers trained

/participated in the

meetings/symposiums

1 2014 59 2452

2 2015-

16

121 3325

Commercial Taxes Department, Karnataka State Audit and Accounts Department, Department of

Treasuries, are the major client departments covered under training. Also, various customised

programmes are conducted for various GoK Departments and PSUs. Month wise details of training

programmes conducted are provided in the Annexure.

2.2 Design of training modules:

i. Commercial Taxes Department: Enforcement-Vigilance module was prepared and submitted

to Commercial Taxes Department during July 2015.

ii. Power Sector: An Expert Committee chaired by Shri. M.R. Sreenivasa Murthy, IAS (Retd)

designed two three-day training programme for training officers of Power Sector. The modules are

(a) Training Programme in Regulatory aspects and (b) Training Programme on ‘Commercial

Aspects of ESCOM Operations’. One batch of training on ‘Commercial Aspects of ESCOM

Operations’ was rolled during FY 2015-16.

iii. Department of Treasuries:

a. The Department of Treasuries had identified contents for officers for preparing training

modules for capacity enhancement as well as the requirement under revised C&R Rules proposed

by the Department. FPI was entrusted to design Core Modules and Refresher Modules.

b. Core Modules: Government constituted the following eight Treasury Module Development

Committees (TMDC) vide G.O No. FPI20Trg2014 Dated: 5th November 2014. The Core modules

were designed and one programme each was rolled out except Financial Management during FY

2015-16.

i. Financial Codes Governing Treasuries

ii. Treasury Operations

iii. Information and Communication Technology

iv. Other Stakeholders in Treasury Transaction

v. Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management


vi. Law and Service Rules

vii. Financial Management

viii. Project Management

c. Leadership and Managerial Skills Module: During finalization of modules in the review

meeting chaired by Secretary B&R, FD, suggestion was made that a training module may be

designed to handle managerial responsibilities by Senior Officers. A TMDC to design ‘Leadership

and Managerial Skills’ module was constituted vide Order No. FPI/TMDC/1/2014 Dated: 7th

August 2015. The roll out of the programme is planned during FY 2016-17.

d. Refresher Course Modules: During the discussions for finalizing mandatory trainings as per

revised C&R rules, decision was taken to conduct two Refresher Courses per year for each of the

identified levels. Accordingly, the following modules were designed by the Conveners as per the

Order (Order No. FPI/TMDC/1/2014 Dated: 16th October 2015) issued by Director FPI. The

trainings on these modules are planned during FY 2016-17.

i. Treasury Operations

ii. Financial Codes Governing Treasuries

iii. Law and Service Rules

iv. Information and Communication Technology

v. Tax Laws – Income Tax, VAT and Sales Tax

vi. Khajane II

iv. Internal Audit: A three-day Internal Audit Module was designed to train the officers of the

Internal Audit Branch of KSAAD and other GoK Departments with an objective to (a) develop

skills in the application of basic concepts of Internal Audit, (b) Familiarize Internal Control,

Security and Internal Audit and (c) Develop confidence and competence by virtue of a working

knowledge of above concepts. Presently, this has been rolled out as part of the Auditing module of

KSAAD.

v. External Aided Projects (EAPs): A Curriculum Development Committee was constituted for

designing training module to the officers of EAPs implementing agencies was constituted vide

Order No. FPI/216/EAP/Trg/17/2014-15 Dated: 7th April 2015. The four-day training module was

designed and the first batch of 39 officers were trained from 1st to 4th July 2015.

vi. Induction Training for promoted CTOs: A comprehensive six-day training module was

prepared and rolled for CTOs who were promoted from the cadre of Commercial Tax Inspector to

the cadre of Commercial Tax Officers. 90 officers were trained in three batches during October to

December 2015.

vii. Compliance to AG audit paras Module: A one-day customised module was designed for

training various officers of GoK regarding compliance to audit paras. Three programmes were

conducted during May 2015, September 2015 and January 2016.

viii. Internal Financial Advisers Programme: In compliance to the request from FD, a three-day

customized training programme on ‘Role of Internal Financial Advisers, GoK’ for IFAs and

officials working in the IFA section was designed. The training programme was executed during

December 2015.

ix. Asset and Liability Monitoring Module: A six-day training module has been designed to

train the officers of Pensions, Small Savings and Asset & Liability Monitoring. The roll out of the


programme is planned during FY 2016-17. The roll out of the programme is planned during FY

2016-17.

FPI has designed the following new training programmes with the help of experts and implemented:

x. Analysis of Financial Statements.

xi. Contract Management

xii. Finance for Non-Finance Executives.

xiii. Public Private Partnerships.

2.3 Training for IES Probationers 2014 (II) Batch:

Department of Economics Affairs, GoI requested Government of Karnataka for conduct of

professional training programme for IES Probationary Officers 2014 (II) batch and based on the

request made by DEA, DPAR has conveyed in principle acceptance and nominated Ms. Prachi

Pandey,IA&AS, Director, Fiscal Policy Institute as Nodal Officer for the said training programme

from the period of 4th January to 26th February 2016 (8 Weeks). Four IES Probationary Officers

reported to Fiscal Policy Institute on 4th January 2016.

2.4 Induction Training at FPI:

In a meeting chaired by Secretary B&R, FD it was suggested that FPI may take up induction training

programme for probationers. The core module of six-week duration is being designed. A Committee

headed by Shri. K.K. Sharma, Adviser & Faculty has been formed for designing this module.

2.5 Research & other activities:

Research Cells created in FPI:

(i) Debt Management and Financial Analysis Cell (DMFA):

This Cell was constituted in May 2014 in FPI to address to the external debt related analytical needs

of the State, including support and advice on debt consolidation, debt portfolio management etc.,

The Cell functions in close coordination with Project Monitoring Unit (PMU), Fiscal Reforms and

guidance of Director FPI. Status Report on Externally Aided Projects (EAPs) on back to back loans

has been prepared by DMFA and PMU during September 2015. The report has been published on

FPI website.

(ii) Economic Analysis Cell (EAC):

The Monthly Report on “Selected Agricultural Commodities for Karnataka” is prepared with the

purpose of providing policy-relevant data and insight and to monitor the price movement and

arrivals in the markets of Karnataka. Online data available on the website of Krishi maratha vahini

which is a portal of Department of Agricultural Marketing and Karnataka State Agricultural

Marketing Board, Govt. of Karnataka is being used for the analysis of data. Analysis in this report

is based on a review of the trends in prices and arrivals for the selected commodities by comparing

the same with prices at three levels, i.e. All India, regional, and district. For making the all-India

and regional comparisons, online data from Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Consumer

Affairs, Govt. of India has been utilized. During the month of April 2015, report on 13 commodities

was prepared. Further, one new commodity analysis was added every month till November 2015.


After November 2015 number of commodities was frozen at 20 and the report was sent to the

following officers / departments every month:

a. Principal Secretary, Finance Department

b. Planning, Programme Monitoring and Statistics Departments

c. Horticulture & Sericulture Department

d. Department of Agriculture

e. Additional Chief Secretary -Cum- Development Commissioner

f. Director, Department of Agricultural Marketing

g. Co-operation Department

h. ACS to Chief Minister.

iii) Gender Budget Cell:

1. Preparation of Gender Budget Document:

Fiscal Policy Institute, Kengeri, provides Technical support for the preparation of Gender Budget

Document year on year which is presented to Legislature along with other Budget Documents. FPI

coordinates with Budget section/ Computer Cell of Finance Department in this task. FPI is

responsible for Gender Budget preparation in association with Department of Women and Child

Development.

2. Trainings Conducted:

a. A series of nine training programmes on ‘Gender Budgeting for Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’

officers of Women and Child Development Department’ was conducted at FPI from June

to October 2015. The programme mainly focused on (a) creating awareness of the current

Gender Budget practices and processes and (b) emphasing the need for increasing

efficiency of service delivery.

b. A total of Six Workshops have been conducted during January and February 2016. Five

Workshops were conducted during January and one in February. The objective of these

Workshops were to validate the schemes as published in the Gender Budget Document

2015-16 and for obtaining information as per the Gender Budget Circular FY 2016-17

issued by FD during November 2015.

3. Miscellaneous:

a. Communication was sent from Principal Secretary Finance to Principal Secretary Women

and Child Development regarding efforts to be made for ensuring that the ultimate

objectives of bringing out the Gender Budget document are achieved. In response to the

communications sent from FD, representative from DWCD, Dr. Pushpa M, Assistant

Director, Department of Women and Child Development was associated in the preliminary

activities and preparation of Gender Budget Document 2016-17.

b. Director FPI, one Special Officer and one Research Consultant participated in the review

meetings of Gender Budgeting chaired by Hon’ble Minister DWCD, Differently abled and

Senior Citizen’s Empowerment and Department of Kannada and Culture.


c. Compliance to the report of 14th Vidhana Sabha Public Accounts Committee 5th Report

recommendations was submitted to FD.

2.6 Consultancy:

a) Karnataka Evaluation Authority: FPI is represented on the ‘Technical Committee’ of Karnataka

Evaluation Authority by one Faculty member. Consultancy has been provided in the following

areas:

i. Discussion and approval of Terms of Reference for Evaluation Studies.

ii. Presentation and approval of work plan / inception report of Evaluation Studies.

iii. Presentation of final Draft Evaluation Reports of the Evaluation Studies.

b) Ease of Doing Business: Representatives from the British High Commission, New Delhi and

Deputy High Commission, Bengaluru have been in touch with GoK to identify the areas of

collaboration with UK Government in Ease of Doing Business. In this regard, FPI would be

associated in capacity-building programmes for all tax departments and third-party consultancy

support work.

2.7 Research in progress:

a. Appointment of short term Consultant for two-months to do a study on ‘Performance

Evaluation of Social Pensions in Karnataka’.

b. Appointment of Intern for a period of six-weeks related to the area of Finance at FPI.

c. Process of appointing short term Consultant for two-months to do study in the area of

‘14th Finance Commission’ is in progress.

d. Convergence of Governance towards development of organisations: This Research paper is

presented in International Conference held on 25-11-2015 at Bangalore University.

2.8 Others:

Policies:

a) Government has issued Internship, Guidelines and Selection process and sanction for hiring

Interns as proposed by Fiscal Policy Institute from FY 2015-16 vide G.O No. FD 28 SAVIYO 2015,

Bangalore Dated: 7th October 2015. The Guidelines have been posted on FPI website.

b) FPI has also framed internal policies for usage of data cards and transport which was approved

by FPI Governing Council in 11th G.C meeting held on 10/09/2015.


2.9 Budget:

There was two Head of account, one each for FPI and FPAC. Allocation for FPI is made both under

Plan and Non Plan. Whereas for FPAC it was only under Non Plan. From 2014-15 onwards, there

is no separate allocation made to FPAC as it is merged with FPI.

The allocation under FPI Head of Account for the year 2015-16 is as follows:

(Rs.in lakhs)

2.10 Expenditure:

The expenditure incurred up to the end of March 2016 is as follows:

(Rs. in lakhs)

Head of Account

Actual/Accounts 2013-14 RE 2014-15 BE 2015-16

Plan Non Plan Plan

Non

Plan Plan Non Plan

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Fiscal Policy Institute

2052-00-090-0-12

144.75 266.62 89.29

543.29

98.00

935.00

Fiscal Policy Analysis Cell

2054-00-098-0-02

--- 135.71 --- --- --- ---

Total 144.75 402.33 89.29 543.29 98.00 935.00

Head of Account

Actual/Accounts 2013-

14

RE 2015-16 Expenditure till

Mar 2016

Plan Non Plan Plan Non

Plan Plan

Non

Plan

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)


2052-00-090-0-12

144.75 266.62 98.00

672.92

78.55

526.75

Fiscal Policy Analysis Cell

2054-00-098-0-02

--- 135.71 --- --- --- ---

Total 144.75 402.33 98.00 672.92 78.55

526.75


Chapter-3

Not applicable.


Chapter-4

4.1 First part: Nil.

4.2 Second part: Nil.

4.3 Third part: Nil.

4.4 Fourth part:

FPI’s Journal of Economics & Governance – “Aarthika Charche”

a. The first edition of the FPI Journal was published during March 2016. It has 12 thought provoking

articles written by eminent personalities. Aarthika Charche is a bi-annual journal brought out by FPI.

Addressed to practitioners, academics, government and non-government entities, the journal features

articles that bring an innovative, insightful, and influential view-point on financial and fiscal issues in

government and governance.

b. The title of the journal ‘Aarthika Charche’was verified by the O/o The Registrar of Newspapers for

India, New Delhi. Process has been initiated to get the RNI number for the journal.

c. The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) was obtained for the FPI journal from Indian

National Centre for ISSN, New Delhi.


Chapter 5

5. Achievements in Human Resources Management and Administrative activities

5.1 Human Resources:

a) Statement showing staff strength and vacancy position

* 5 Special Officers post converted into Research Consultant post. 4 Research Consultants are

working on contract basis during the year of report.

Post Group Sanctioned Strength Working Strength Vacant


Director A 1 I/C 1

Deputy Director/

Joint Director

A 1 1 0

Faculty A 15 3 12

Chief Accounts

Officer

A 1 1 0

Special Officer Scale

less

18* 14 4

Accounts

Superintendent

B 1 1 0

Librarian C 1 OOD 1

Assistant Librarian C 1 0 1

Assistant Statistical

Officer

C 2 0 2

Programmer C 2 0 2

Data Entry

Operator

C 2 0 2

First Division

Assistant Accounts

C 1 1 0

First Division

Assistant

C 1 0 1

Stenographers C 8 0 8

Second Division

Assistant Accounts

C 1 1 0

Second Division

Assistant

C 1 1 0

Peon D 12 0 12

Total 69 23 46


b) Statement showing group wise staff strength

c) Statement showing group wise Male, Female and SC, ST strength

5.2 Vacancy position and retirements:

As on date 46 posts in FPI are vacant.

No officer/staff is due for retirement during the year 2016.

5.3 Outsourced staff:

The following staff were outsourced:

Sl.no Group Sanctioned Vacant Working strength

Male

Female

Total

1 A 18 13 2 3 5

2 B 1 - 1 - 1

3 C 20 17 2 1 3

4 D 12 12 - - -

5 Scale less posts 18 4 7 7 14

Total 69 46 12 11 23

Sl.no Group Male Female Total

SC ST Other SC ST Other

1 A - - 2 - - 3 5

2 B - - 1 - - - 1

3 C 1 1 1 3

4 D - - -

5 Scale less 2 1 4 -- -- 7 14

Total 3 1 8 - - 11 23


Sl No. Designation No. of workers

1 Consultants 2

2 System Administrator 1

3 Personal Assts. 8

4 Data Entry Operators 12

5 Drivers 5

6 Technical Asst. 1

7 Receptionist 3

8 Dalayath 6

5.4 Trainings and FPI representations:

a) Trainings attended by officers/Staff:

1. One officer attended Project Management training at FPI, Bangalore from 8th to 10th July'2015.

2. One officer attended Mentoring Skills training at NATRSS, New Delhi from 22nd to 24th July'2015.

3. One officer attended Facilitation Skills training at NATRSS, New Delhi from27th to 29th July'2015.

4. Two Special Officers attended “Experience Learning Tools” (ELT) training held at ATI, Mysore

from 07/09/2015 to 11/09/2015.

5. One officer Attended a lecture by Dr.Johannes Keizer, Information Systems Officer,

UNFAO,ROME, and Strategic lead, GODAN on the topic 'Global Open Data in Agriculture and

Nutrition, a new frontier for achieving food security' on 7th Oct 2015 at Indian Statistical Institute,

Bangalore campus.

6. One Special Officer attended “Facilitation Skill Course” held at RCVP Noronha Academy of

Administration, Bhopal from 19/10/2015 to 21/10/2015.

7. One officer attended Trainers' Training on GST at Trivendrum from 21st & 22nd Sept'2015.

8. One group C official attended “Preparation of bills” training held at DTI, Bengaluru from

16/11/2015 to 18/11/2015.

9. One group C official attended “NPS” training held at DTI, Bengaluru from 14/12/2015 to

15/12/2015.

10.One officer attended Public Private Partnership (PPP) training at FPI, Bangalore from 4th to 8th

Jan'2016.

11.One group C official attended “Panchatantra” training held at DTI, Bengaluru from 04/02/2016 to

06/02/2016.

12.One officer attended Computer Literacy Training (CLT) at Keonics, Bangalore from 15th to 20th

Feb'2016


13. One group B officer attended “Panchatantra” training held at DTI, Bengaluru from 8/03/2016 to

10/03/2016.

b) Trainings delivered within and outside the State:

i) A session on ‘Monetary Unit Sampling – Introduction, calculation of sample size, and

extrapolation of results.’ in the Southern Regional Workshop on Application of Statistical Sampling

in Audit organized for the Audit officers of the southern states at the O/o Accountant General,

Bangalore on 16th Oct 2015.

ii) One officer handled sessions on ‘Gender Budgeting’, ‘Concepts of Gender’ for officers of

various Government Departments at ATI Mysuru.

iii) One officer handled session on GB at ATIs of various states.

c) FPI representation in various forums:

* Representation at National Conference of State Ministers and Principal Secretaries of WCD

at New Delhi during October 2015.

* Participated in “Asia Pacific regional consultation on shaping a new agenda for

transformative financial and gender equality- a dialogue with Ministers of Finance programme and

workshop on Status of GRB in the Asia Pacific region- validation organised by UN Women at

Bangkok, Thailand during November 2015.

5.5 Higher qualification acquired:

Mr. Maazuddin Khan, Special Officer has submitted PhD thesis titled "Impact of E-Governance on

Administration" with special reference to Government of Karnataka and its Employees, submitted to

VTU for Adjudication.

5.6 Software: The training details of the training programmes held during the year 2015-16 was

uploaded in the training software being used at FPI for taking feedback related to the particular course,

housing and catering facilities.

5.7 Administrative inspections: Not applicable.
