The Board, in its first meeting held on 27 April 1983, had approved setting up of Secretary’s Department to attend to the work relating to Board and it’s Committees.
The Secretary’s Department acts as Secretariat to the Board of Directors of NABARD and attends to all liaison and coordination work with Head Office Departments/Regional Offices for execution of various directions/decisions of the Board and its Committees. The Department acts as a nodal department for liaising with Government of India and Reserve Bank of India in the matters relating to the Board, NABARD Act, and General Regulations, etc.
Right To Information Cell
Pursuing it’s goals of transparency, proactive disclosure and compliance to statutory obligations, NABARD has been effectively providing information sought under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005.
Senior level officers at Regional Offices, Training Establishments and at Head Office have been designated as Central Public Information Officers (CPIOs) to comply with the statutory obligations under the RTI Act, 2005. Shri Monomoy Mukherjee, Chief General Manager is the Appellate Authority.
Grievance Redressal Cell
Grievance Redressal Cell came into existence in NABARD in 2009 to take up matters related to grievance of individual officers/employees in respect of the decision of the bank relating to service matters.
Compliance Cell
In order to ensure that NABARD fulfils relevant statutory requirements, the Board in its 199th meeting held on 04 March 2014 resolved that NABARD may identify a Compliance Officer, preferably in the rank of CGM. CGM & Secretary is presently the Chief Compliance Officer.
Core functions
Secretary’s Department
- Work connected with the meetings of the Board of Directors, Executive Committee (EC) and other Committees of the Board.
- Matters relating to constitution of Board and appointment of Chairman, Managing Director (MD,) Deputy Managing Director (DMD), Director on Board/Committees of Board.
- Publication of Annual Accounts in the Gazette of India.
- Work connected with the meetings of the Management Committee (MC) and Internal Sanctioning Committee.
- Liaison with Ministry of Finance, Government of India for placing the Annual Reports and Annual Accounts of NABARD before the Parliament.
- Amendments to the NABARD Act, 1981, NABARD General Regulations, 1982, NABARD (Additional) General Regulations, 1984.
- Works relating to Performance Linked Incentive Scheme for the Chairman and Deputy Managing Directors (DMDs,) NABARD
- Nodal department for collection, compilation and circulation of Monthly Performance Highlights of Regional Offices (ROs)/Training Establishments (TEs)
Right To Information Cell & Grievance Redressal Cell
Right To Information Cell
- Works relating to implementation of RTI Act, 2005, under the domain of the Transparency Officer
- Processing of applications and appeals received and providing replies within the time frame stipulated in the RTI Act, 2005
- Dealing with hearings in response to notices from Central Information Commission
- Creating sensitisation and providing training within the organization to create heightened awareness levels about the obligations under the RTI Act, 2005 to support the smooth implementation of the Act within the organization
Grievance Redressal Cell
- Processing of applications and appeals received for presenting the same to the Grievance Redressal Committee and the Grievance Redressal Appellate Committee for discussion
- Providing replies to the applicant/Appellant based on the decision taken by the committee
Compliance Cell
- Coordination with Reserve Bank of India in conduct of financial inspection of NABARD and follow up action thereof, including submission of compliance to RBI.
- Coordination with the departments on complaints and other matters received from RBI in respect of NABARD supervised entities.
Broad achievements during 2021-22
Secretary’s Department
During the year 2021-22, the Secretary’s Department convened:
- 05 meetings of the Board
- 04 meetings of Executive Committee
- 06 meetings of the Sanctioning Committee
- 03 meetings of the HR Committee
- 02 meetings of the IT Committee
- 02 meeting of the Premises Committee
- 21 meetings of the Internal Sanctioning Committee
- 09 meetings of the Management Committee
Right To Information Cell
During the year 2021-22:
- 1538 applications requesting for information were received
- 1312 (including the reply provided to the applications received during the fag end of last year) applicants were provided with information
- Against 130 appeals received, 123 appeals were responded to
- In response to the Government of India directive, NABARD formulated its disclosure policy and the same was uploaded on the website. NABARD has also migrated to RTI Online from 01 December 2015, based on instructions received from Government of India, enabling applicants and appellants from across the country to make online applications and appeals and receive replies online.
Grievance Redressal Cell
During the year 2021-22, seven (07) Grievance Applications were received. The Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) met twice during the year i.e. on 21 September 2021 and 29 March 2022 and disposed of 06 applications which included 04 applications of previous year and 02 of the 07 applications received in 2021-22.
Contact Information
Shri Monomoy Mukherjee
Chief General Manager & Secretary
8th floor, ‘B’ Wing
C-24, ‘G’ Block
Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (East)
Mumbai – 400 051
Tel: (91) 022-68120054
E-mail Address: secy@nabard.org
Information under RTI – Section 4(1)(b)