6.1. Similarity with EGoMs

Usually, it is a group of ministers empowered with taking certain decisions on the behalf of the Cabinet, on such matters as have been assigned to them by the appointing authority. The decisions taken by such ‘Alternative Mechanisms’ have the force of a government decision. Prior to the practice of establishing ‘Alternative Mechanisms’, the government appointed Empowered Group of Ministers and Group of Ministers under the Government of India’s Transaction of Business Rules 1961.