<h1>Expenditure austerity: restrictions on travel, hiring, private hotel meetings, and procurement to enforce departmental budget discipline.</h1> Immediate fiscal restraints require departments to limit revenue expenditure late in the financial year and restrict last month payments to executed works and procured goods, barring advance releases except for specified employee advances, compassionate cases, disaster relief, or statutory loans; procurement rush is forbidden and codal procedures must be observed. Operational controls ban meetings in private hotels, discourage external exhibitions, impose economy cuts on budgets including travel and hospitality, regulate travel (international permission by finance, domestic economy class), prohibit creation of new posts, mandate recruitment via specified commissions with finance concurrence, and require surrender of long vacant posts.