Functions:- 

Arrange promptly for disbursement on behalf of the Defence Services and D.A.D. in the allotted spheres, safeguarding the interest of Govt.

Responsibilities:- 

Arrange for cash assignments on treasuries and the Bank in favour of disbursing officers authorised to make payments.

NOTE :-

The term "The Bank" wherever used in this manual means the Reserve Bank of India or any of its offices or branches and includes any branch of the State Bank of India acting as the agent of the Reserve Bank of India in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Band of India Act (Act II of 1934).

• Indent for cheque pads and cheque books and to arrange for their custody and accounting.

• Pay all passed bills received from other sections.

• Despatch cheques and cheques slips.

• Prepare a schedule III (I.A.F.(C.D.A.)-345) separately for each payment made and to forward onc copy of the schedule to Accounts Section.

• Maintain a daily record of the reconciliation made between the totals of daily payment sheets and schedules III to furnish Local Audit Officers, M.E.S. AAO, or other Controllers of Defence Accounts with duplicate cheque slips in respect of the cheques issued to units and formations in their audit areas.

• Alloting Code Number based on RBI guidelines to signatories who are authorised to sign cheques as per the approval of CDA, which will be affixed on cheques while signing cheques.

• Forwarding of Specimen Signatures of DAD Officers to all Treasuries on 1st April/October each year as directed by RBI.

• Supply Defence MICR Cheques to all Cash Assignment holders/Sub-Offices under CDA control who are authorised to issue cheques.

  Disbursement Section in CDA(R&D) Bangalore has been consistently making 99.7% of the total payments by NEFT/RTGS.