Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh-
The Haryana Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of CM Nayab Singh Saini here today, approved amendment in S.No. 35 of Appendix-15 of the Punjab Financial Rules, Volume-II, Financial Handbook No. 2 (as applicable in Haryana), to authorize the Chairman of the Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC) for incurring Secret Service Expenditure related to recruitment functions.
The Chairman, HSSC, is now empowered to incur expenditure for confidential services, including preparation of question papers, OTR (One Time Registration/Inviting of application), Data Short listing, allocation of Roll Nos. and Examination Centres, result preparation, Writing Material, Packing Material, Payment to examiners, Payments of question Paper Developer, CBT (Computer Based Test), Audit of Digital Data (Biometric, CCTV, Application data etc.), Online Scrutiny of Documents, etc and any other activity which the Chairman deems to consider secret as required from time to time as per changes/advancement in technology.
These amendments are notified as the Punjab Financial Rules, Volume-II (Haryana Amendment) Rules, 2025, and shall come into force upon publication in the official Gazette.