The State Secretariat, as the top layer of the state administration, is primarily meant to assist the state government in policy creation and in discharging its legislative functions. The main functions of the State Secretariat are broadly as follows:
- Framing draft legislation, and rules and regulations
- Coordinating policies and programmes, supervising and controlling their execution, and reviewing of the results
- Budgeting and control of expenditure
- Maintaining get in touch with the Government of India and other state governments; and
- Overseeing the smooth and efficient running of the administrative machinery and initiating measures to develop greater personnel and organizational competence
Directorates are the executive arm of the state government; they translate into action the policies that are framed through the State Secretariat. Even though the conditions Directorates‘ and Executive Agencies‘ are often used interchangeably, Directorates are but one kind of executive agency. Directorates are classified into two categories – Attached Offices and Subordinate Offices. This classification facilitates academic comprehension of the roles, which the two kinds perform in policy execution.
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