Planned, Non-Planned spending at 42% in Apr-Oct

Labour & employment, sports & youth affairs, planning & coordination, agriculture recorded mor than 50% spending in the period

Government departments in Odisha have logged combined expenditure of 42.23% in the April-October period of 2012-13.

Out of a total Plan and non-Plan provision of Rs 52755.15 crore for this fiscal, actual spending is Rs 22277.75 crore till October-end. Plan expenditure at Rs 7567.15 crore is 42.67% of the overall Plan provision of Rs 17684.35 crore.

Similarly, Non-Plan expenditure at Rs 14710.59 crore is an achievement of 41.95% of the provision of Rs 35070.80 crore.

The departments which have recorded more than 50% spending in April-October period are labour & employment (64.57%), sports & youth affairs (57.82%), planning & coordination (71.44%), public grievances & public administration (54.66%), agriculture (52.92%), information & public relations (51.18%), tourism & culture (59.99%), cooperation (66.49%) and women & child development (58.03%).

On the contrary, general administration (28.71%), Odisha legislative assembly (29.36%), food supplies & consumer welfare (17.77%), information technology (0.53%) and employment, technical education & training (27.56%) were lacklustre in spending the allocated funds.

Plan and Non-Plan spending stood at 82.92% of the overall provision in 2011-12. Of the total Plan and Non-Plan provision of Rs 50,772.37 crore for the previous fiscal, 38 departments had clocked expenditure totaling to Rs 42098.74 crore with 13 departments recording spending level beyond 90% of the allocated funds