Bihar assembly passes suppli demand & appropriation bill

Bihar assembly today passed the first supplementary demand for grant of Rs 18313.74 crore of the current financial year as well as the Bihar Appropriation (No.3) Bill 2017.
The Appropriation Bill is required for withdrawal of the supplementary demand from the treasury to meet various outstanding expenditure in addition to those sanctioned in the budget 2017-18.
The opposition members were absent during the passage of bill and supplementary demand as they had staged a walkout.
While tabling the appropriation bill, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said that of supplementary demand of Rs 18313.74 crore, Rs 10463.37 crore has been earmarked towards "scheme" head (earlier known as plan expenditure).

Besides, Rs 7087.12 crore and Rs 763.24 crore were earmarked for establishment and committed expenditure and central sector scheme.
Sushil Modi, who also holds finance portfolio, said that the state government has made the provision for earmarking Rs 6053 crore for contingency fund in order to tackle the flood situation in the state.

Both the Central and state governments have been working in tandem to carry out relief and rescue operations to protect people's life, he said adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is coming to the state to visit the flood hit areas on August 26.
The deputy CM said that the government wanted a debate on the flood situation but the opposition walked out.

He said that he would still appeal to opposition members to have a debate on the issue in the interest of the people and the state.