CCEA - Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

 

CCEA - Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

• CCEA is one of the Cabinet Committees

Composition of CCEA in 2021 year 

Prime Minister	Shri Narendra Modi
Minister of Defence	Shri Raj Nath Singh
Minister of Home Affairs	Shri Amit Shah
Minister of Road Transport and Highways	Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari
Minister of Finance;	Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
Minister of Agriculture	Shri Narendra Singh Tomar
Minister of External Affairs	Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Minister of Commerce and Industry	Shri Piyush Goyal
Minister of Education	Shri Dharmendra Pradhan

 

Cabinet Committees are 

1. Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

2. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.

3. Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs.

4. Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth.

5. Cabinet Committee on Security.

6. Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs.

7. Cabinet Committee on Employment & Skill Development.

8. Cabinet Committee on Accommodation.

• All committees except Cabinet Committee on Accommodation and Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs are headed by Prime Minister.

The object of the Cabinet committees are 

1.  To lessen the enormous workload of the Cabinet. 

2. Facilitate an in-depth examination of policy issues 

3. Principle of the division of labour and effective delegation

4. Frame proposals for the Cabinet’s consideration

5. Also, take decisions, but of course, Cabinet can review such decisions. 

• COM - Council of Ministers is a Constitutional body by Articles 74 & 75 of Constitution of India, whereas the Cabinet Committee is an extra-constitutional body (not mentioned in the Constitution of India)  in emergence. 

• Although Cabinet committees are not constitutional bodies, their work cannot be under estimated as they provide crucial guidance to the Cabinet. 

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Office Order 01 of 2017 Approval of Railway Projects

 

Approval of Railway Projects - Office Order No 01 of 2017 

•  Click here for OO 01 of 2017   (Authority: Ministry of Finance modified OM No. 24(35)PF-II/2012 dated 05.08.2016 

 

• Procedure for Appraisal and approval of New Public funded Projects in IR 

Delegation of Powers

Cost of the Project	IPA - In Principal Approval	Appraised by	Approved by
Up to Rs.100 Crores	Member Finance	Member Finance	Chairman & CEO, Railway Board
Rs. 100 Crores to Rs.500 Crores	Member Finance	Railway Board	Minister of Railways (after being examined and recommended by the RB)
Rs. 500 Crores to Rs.1000 Crores	Member Finance	NITI Aayog, Expanded Board for Railways chaired by CRB & CEO	Minister of Railways
Rs. 1000 Crores & above	Member Finance	NITI Aayog, EBR - Expanded Board for Railways chaired by CRB & CEO	CCEA - Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

• Projects costing Rs. 50 Crores and above  - Preparation of DPR - Detailed Project Report is mandatory before they are processed for sanction of the competent authority. 

 

• In Simple, All projects irrespective of cost - IPA - In Principal Approval by Member Finance

 

• Rs. 100 Crores to Rs. 1000 Crores - Approval by Minister of Railways.  Less than Rs.100 Crores - CRB & CEO and More than 1000 Crores - CCEA