Para 3.3 — NONCONSULT_MANUAL

3.3.2. Right to Information and Proactive Information Disclosures

Rule 21. Standards of financial propriety: Every officer incurring or authorising expenditure from public moneys should be guided by high standards of financial propriety. Every officer should also enforce financial order and strict economy and ensure that all relevant financial rules and regulations are observed by his own office and by subordinate disbursing officers. Among the principles on which emphasis is generally laid are the following: - i) Every officer is expected to exercise the same vigilance in respect of expenditure incurred from public moneys as a person of ordinary prudence would exercise in respect of expenditure of his own money. ii) The expenditure should not be prima facie more than the occasion demands. iii) No authority should exercise its powers of sanctioning expenditure to pass an order that will be directly or indirectly to its own advantage. iv) Expenditure from public moneys should not be incurred for the benefit of a particular person or a section of the people unless — a) a claim for the amount could be enforced in a Court of Law, or b) the expenditure is in pursuance of a recognized policy or custom.

3.3. Governance Issues in Procurement of Services 3.3.1. Standards (Canons) of Financial Propriety Public Procurement, like any other expenditure in Government, must conform to the Standards (also called Canons) of Financial Propriety. It may be useful to refer to the relevant provisions in the General Financial Rules, 2017