Odisha Plan expenditure at 15% of BE in Apr-June

In the previous fiscal, expenditure under state Plan was 12% of the BE

The state government has recorded Plan expenditure at Rs  4909 crore in the April-June period of 2014-15. This represents 15 per cent of the Budget estimate (BE) for the fiscal.

In the previous fiscal, expenditure under State Plan was 12 per cent of the BE.

The newly appointed chief secretary Gokul Chandra Pati today reviewed the progress in State Plan expenditure at a meeting of all secretaries. Pati directed all departments to achieve 60 per cent expenditure level by the end of December.

It has been decided at the meeting that the Integrated Odisha Treasury Management System (IOTMS) will not admit expenditure in excess of 40 per cent of the BE during the last quarter (January-March period) of the current financial year.The utilisation in agriculture and allied sectors has been around 18 per cent against the last fiscal's figure of 10 per cent. The total expenditure in agriculture and allied sectors is Rs 1098.63 crore.

The agriculture and allied sectors covers departments like agriculture, water resources, fisheries and animal resource development, co-operation and also energy that has provided separate agriculture feeders.

A sum of Rs 1171.59 crore has been utilised in the period on infrastructure building that marks 17 per cent of BE as against 15 per cent utilisation recorded in the corresponding  period of 2013-14.

Infrastructure spending has been recorded by departments like works, housing & urban development, rural development and energy.

Similarly, expenditure in social sector up to June during the current fiscal has been Rs 2530.54 cr which is around 17 per of the estimated budget  against the last year’s expenditure of 13 per cent.

The social sector includes the departments of school & mass education, ST & SC development, health & family welfare, labour, panchayati raj, employment training & technical education, women & child Development and higher education.