Branches of Finance Division

Deputy Director's (Finance) Branch
Internal Audit Branch
Imprest &Revenue Branch
Public Officer's Branch
Salaries 1 Branch
Salaries 2 Branch
Other Payment Branch
Development Branch
Accounts Branch (Engineering)




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Deputy Director's (Finance) Branch

Functions
1. Annual Board of Survey pertaining to all Units of the Department of Agriculture;
2. Write-offs
3. Payment of annual contributions to the following foreign agencies of the Department     of Agriculture.
               I. SAARC agricultural Information Center (SAIC), Bangladesh
              II. Commonwealth Agricultural Buroan International (CABI),UK
             III. OGRT Conbro,Indonesia
             IV. Regional Network for Agricultural Engineering and Machinery ( RNAEM),Thailand
              V. Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI),UK
             vi.  International Seed Testing Association (ISTA), Switzerland
4. Payments for foreign Goods and Services
5. Supervision of Advance Accounts.
6. Answering Audit Queries & Queries from the Committee an Public Accounts
7. Assisting the Director (Finance)












Internal Audit Branch

Functions
1. Implementation of the Annual Audit Programme
2. Inquiries pertaining to Petition Special Investigations and Furnishing reports the D.G.A.
3. Submission of explanations to the Auditor General
4. Checking and forwarding, Running Charts, Summaries of Revenue and Documents to the Auditor General.
5. Co-ordination of the activities pertaining to the Committee on Public Accounts.

















Imprest &Revenue Branch

Functions
1. Financial Management of the Department.
2. Preparation of revenue estimates and the revenue account.
3. Opening / close and controlling of Bank Accounts.
4. Maintenance of the Deposit account and reconciliation.
5. Obtaining Treasury Imprests, distribution and reconciliation.
6. Preparation of the main summary of accounts having obtained monthly summaries from units which were     given Imprests.
7. Collecting revenue, classifying and keeping accounts though the Shroff Branch and two revenue collecting     accounts.
8. Making other payments and having a control on cash balance, controlling the Shroff Branch.
9. Preparation of the Appropriation Account at the end of the year after comparing with reports, treasury deposits and computer print outs.
10. Settlement of Railway Bills.

















Public Officer's Branch

Functions
1. Payment recoveries of Loans.
2. Preparation of Estimates.
3. Preparation of Summaries of Accounts, Bank Reconciliation. and Expenditure Reports.
4. Preparation of Quarterly Reports and Annual Accounts.
5. Answering audit Queries.
6. Agrahara Insurance activities of all officers in the Department of Agriculture.
7. Maintenance of vehicles of the Finance Branch.


















Salaries 1 Branch

Functions
1. Preparation of salaries of the permanent staff of the Department , under the Central Government (except the     Farm Divisionand other unit )
2. Preparation of Bank Reconciliation's (Monthly)
3. Writing of cheques for all salary recoveries and having checked them with the relevant list positing or     handing them over to the particular establishment and     division.
4. Attending to public Officers Provident Fund payments, preparation of monthly summaries and submitting the     awards and vouchers to the Secretary Public     Officers'Provident Fund.
5. Preparation of monthly summaries of Accounts the Accountant for Imprest Branch.
6. Having made all payments, passing the relevant pay sheets and vouchers filed in order, over to the Internal     Audit Branch.
7. Sending the cheques and money orders returned unpaid over to the Accountant for Imprest Branch .
8. Payment and recoveries of Festival and special Advances. Preparation of the Annual Advance Accounts     Summary for the Accountant, Public     Officers'Advance    account.
9. Payment of salaries to salary particulars of the Department who had under viding activities. Providing of     salary particulars and other relevant recoveries to     the officers transferred over to other Departments and     Provincial Councils.














Salaries 2 Branch

Function
1. Payment of Salaries to permanent and casual labourers in all units of the Department.
2. Payments of Overtime and Contract Salaries relating to all officers of the Department where no paying Units     exist.
3. Payments
        I. Monthly Summaries of Accounts
        II.Bank Reconciliation's
        III.Expenditure Reports
4. Answering Audit Queries

















Other Payment Branch

Functions
1. All recurrent expenditure payments relating to the following 5 projects of the Department (Except salaries &     wages)
I. Finance Division
         II.Administration Division
         III.Extension & Training Division
         IV.Seed Development & Plant protection Division
         V. Socio-economic & planning Division
2. Payment of Pension Awards, Death Awards and Temporary Payments to officers going on retirement.
3. Payment of foreign travel expenses to officers of the Department going abroad.
4. Board of Survey Payments.
5. Preparation of Monthly Summaries of Accounts Expenditure of Accounts Reports and Bank Reconciliation.
6. Answering Audit Queries













Development Branch

Functions
1.Capital Payments relating to all Units of the Department.
        I. Acquisition of Fixed Assets
        II.Improvement of Fixed Assets
2. Payments and Accounts relating to Small Scale Foreign Funded Projects
3. Committee on Agricultural Research and policy Payments
4. Accounts
         I. Monthly Summaries of Accounts
         II. Bank Reconciliation's(relating to 4 Accounts)
         III. Expenditure Reports.
5. Answering Audit Queries


















Accounts Branch (Engineering)

Functions
1. Salaries of employees in Engineering Division
2. Salaries of employees in the Farm, Machinery &Research Division, Mahailluppallama
3. All other relevant payment of the above Units
4. Special payments of the above Units
5. Project payments
       I. B.S.P.P.
       II. JAICA
       III. SAARC






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