{"id":12130,"date":"2025-11-17T12:52:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:23:21","slug":"department-of-expenditure-ministry-of-finance-concludes-chintan-shivir-2025-held-in-rajasthan-on-14th-15th-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=12130","title":{"rendered":"Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, concludes Chintan Shivir 2025 held in Rajasthan on 14th &#038; 15th November, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center event-heading-background\">\n<h2 id=\"Titleh2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, concludes Chintan Shivir 2025 held in Rajasthan on 14th &amp; 15th November, 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><br \/>\nChintan Shivir 2025 saw participation of Finance Departments from Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Delhi and Rajasthan<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Deliberations during Chintan Shivir 2025 focused on \u2018Just in Time\u2019 flow of funds, Integrated Financial Management System and Public Financial Management System, use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Government Processes, and appraisal\/ approval process of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"PrDateTime\" class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Posted On: 15 NOV 2025 6:25PM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, organised a two-day\u00a0\u2018Chintan Shivir 2025\u2019 in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan, on 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0&amp; 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November, 2025. Apart from officers of the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, the event witnessed participation of representatives as well as Finance Departments of the following States and Union Territory: Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Delhi and Rajasthan.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image001B9C9.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Chintan Shivir was kickstarted with welcome speech by Additional Secretary (Personnel), Department of Expenditure Ms. Parama Sen followed by address by Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, Shri V. Vualnam.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>During the first day, deliberations focused on the present status &amp; issues regarding \u2018Just in Time\u2019 flow of funds. In an interactive session followed by a presentation on the topic, suggestions were obtained from the States\/UT on the fund flow mechanism for an in-sync, effective and collaborative approach of the fund flows. It was followed by a presentation of the Finance Department of the Government of Rajasthan on how its Integrated Financial Management System is working together with the Public Financial Management System and various fund flow mechanisms of the Central Government to achieve \u2018Just in Time\u2019 flow of funds. In another interactive session, a presentation was made by National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics &amp; Information Technology, Government of India on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in government processes. Various advantages and challenges on the use of AI in government processes were discussed at length. Various ways in which AI can be used effectively for decision making and policy formulation in the Government was also discussed. Subsequently, the officials broke away in four Groups for \u2018Chintan\u2019.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image002F3C3.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>On the second day, deliberations were held with participating States\/ UT on design and implementation issues of the Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) as the tenure of XV Finance Commission Cycle shall be ending on 31.03.2026 and that the XVI Finance Commission Cycle shall be commencing on 01.04.2026. Suggestions\/ views of the States\/ UT were also obtained in the wake of undergoing appraisal\/ approval process of the CSSs ending on 31.03.2026 and requiring continuation beyond the XV FCC. It was followed by presentations by the four groups on diverse topics for bringing in evolving, unique and state-of-the-art thought processes through \u2018<em>Chintan<\/em>\u2019, to enhance functioning and outreach of the Government.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The\u00a0<em>Chintan Shivir<\/em>\u00a02025 concluded with concluding remarks of the Secretary, Department of Expenditure, followed by vote of thanks.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>A special thanks was given to the participating States\/ UT and the Government of Rajasthan for joining the Department of Expenditure in the\u00a0<em>Chintan Shivir<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, concludes Chintan Shivir 2025 held in Rajasthan on 14th &amp; 15th November, 2025 Chintan Shivir 2025 saw participation of Finance Departments from Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Delhi and Rajasthan Deliberations during Chintan Shivir 2025 focused on \u2018Just in Time\u2019 flow of funds, Integrated Financial Management System and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12133,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions\/12133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}