INTRODUCTION

MOTTO: "Service to Indenters".

The responsibility for procurement of stores required by various Departments of the State Government vests with the Department of Industries & Mines in secretariat. The I & M Deptt. has been carrying out this function through the Industries Commissioner & C.P.O. The Organization is known as a Central Stores Purchase Organization, which is a part of the Industries Commissionerate. The Additional. Industries Commissioner (Stores Purchase) heads the CSPO and works under the guidance and control of the Industries Commissioner. In addition to a Purchase Wing, CSPO has a regular Inspection Wing and a Registration Wing. With a view to achieve expeditious purchase through the CSPO, the Govt. vide G.R.No. SPO/I 064/329-GI dated 5h June 1964 had issued detailed guidelines.

CSPO has been catering to the requirements of all State Govt. Departments since 1960. However, as the overall activities of the State Govt. proliferated and expanded, the purchases became too huge to be handled by a single agency. Hence, the State, Govt. decided w decentralize the purchase activity by creating various Departmental Purchase Committees. As of today, 18 DPCs are working in the State and powers have, been decentralized to these committees as per their, requirements which are being revised from time to time, 'Thus, the major purchase work having been decentralized from the CSPO, the CSPO handles a certain amount of purchases and fixes, annual rate contracts for items such as colour T.V., Plain Paper Copier Machine, Postal Franking Machine, Fire Extinguisher, Road Roller parts, VHS Cassettes, etc., which it can today handle efficiently within the laid down rules and procedures in addition to the work of attending all the DPCs and organizing the SPC meetings.

The CSPO has also been placing supply orders against the Rate Contracts fixed from time to time by the Director General of Supplies arid Disposals, Govt. of India, New Delhi oil behalf of the Indenters.