Measures to ensure Financial Discipline

(1) With a view to . avoiding accumulation of unauthorized abilities and ensuring:timely discharge of current Eabllities, a Publk Servant ‘exercking delegated financial powers under the relevant rules, instructions, guidelines and orders of the Government shall, before appointing or engaging any person for any work in the name of Government, or awarding any work, or giving technical or financial sanction, or starting a construction work, or awarding an order of supply of goods and services, or entering Into a contract or Memorandum of Understanding, or granting or committing to grant a benef, relief, grant-in-aid or compensation to any person on beha¥ of the Government, whether in exercise of a power . conferred under a Statute or otherwise, which creates or has the implication of ] creating lablity on the Consolidated Fund of the State of the Fund of is agencies, obtain prior approval for such appointment, engagement, technkal or foandal sanction, work order, ‘supply order, contract, Memorandum of Understanding, grant, payment, benefk as the case may be or commitment for any of the foregoing, In compliance with the Rules, procedures;

conferred under a Statute or otherwise, which creates or has the implication of ] creating lablity on the Consolidated Fund of the State of the Fund of is agencies, obtain prior approval for such appointment, engagement, technkal or foandal sanction, work order, ‘supply order, contract, Memorandum of Understanding, grant, payment, benefk as the case may be or commitment for any of the foregoing, In compliance with the Rules, procedures;