Delta asks MDAs to submit work plan for 2012

TO ensure proper coordination, the Delta Government has directed its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to submit their comprehensive work plans for the 2012 fiscal year.The Commissioner for Economic Planning, Mr Kenneth Okpara, gave the directive yesterday in Asaba at a meeting with commissioners, permanent secretaries and heads of agencies and departments in the state.Okpara directed that the budgetary work plans should be dividedinto the four quarters of the year, adding that the state's 2012 budget would be derived from the work plans.He announced that beginning from January 2012, the MDAs would be required to give quarterly reports ofphysical progress of projects and other activities and financial report on each project.The commissioner said that the method would enable the government to keep track of it projects and activities and be able to assess their performances.Okpara advised the MDAs to make budgetary provisions for yearly maintenance and operations of infrastructure and projects requiring periodic maintenance.He said that the procedures for the execution and monitoring of approved expenditure should also be clearly specified by each ministry or department.The commissioner directed the ministries and the agencies to forward to his ministry, list of all uncompleted and ongoing projects, indicating their cost and current status.``Heads of the ministries, agencies and departments should include budget performance of their projects and programmes from January to September, in the report they will send to us.''he said.The commissioner advised the MDAs to ensure that they complied with the directive, and warnedthat their budget proposals for 2012 would not be considered if the requirements were not met.
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