The duties of the office Superintendent of this Unit are multi-sided and carry considerable responsibilities. There is no separate accountant, not a cashier. The functions of these posts are also in practice combined in the post of Superintendent. The details of work being done under his supervision are mainly as follows :
- Maintenance of cash book and register of contingent expenditure and vouchers and handling of cash.
- Preparation/scrutiny of pay bills, T.A. bills, contingent charges, bills, rent bills and settlement of printing bills of Government Press.
- Maintenance of furniture and library registers and arranging for annual verifications.
- Reconciliation of figures of expenditure with those of audit office.5. Attending to preparation of budget estimates, re-appropriations,
surrenders, appropriation accounts, audit reports and watching of expenditure against budget grant of maintaining check register.
- Maintenance of Service Books and annual verifications, checking of stamp accounts.
- Preparation of quarterly progress reports to be sent to the Central Unit and State Government Departments.
- Preferring of Central grant-in-aid claims and maintenance of correspondence thereon.
- Maintenance of correspondence relating to confidential reports and property statements.
- Arranging for supply of complimentary and exchange copies of District Gazetteers,
- Watching of sale of copies of District Gazetteers and taking steps for promoting sale of copies by several means.
- He has to supervise the work of three Assistants, one Junior Assistant, one Stenographer and Three Typists, besides the work of six
class IV employees. He has to guide the assistants and also to attend to the several other items of both administration and accounts
work to obviate delays in disposal of cases. Thus, he has to do both originals and supervisory work.