Bhubaneswar: States fiscal performance shows an upward trend by end of November, 2018 in both its major components of revenue generation as well as utilisation of budgetary allocations.
This was known at the end of all the department secretaries held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary AP Padhi in the Secretariat conference hall Wednesday.
Reviewing fiscal performances of various departments up to November 2018, Padhi directed the departments to expedite expenditure during December and January.
The CS also directed the departments to review all court cases in the perspective of the Litigation Management Policy of the state government and take quick decisions for their expeditious disposal.
The secretaries of various state government departments were advised to review the cases pending at Heads of the Department (HoD) level and initiate actions for out of court settlement in empowered committee meetings constituted under the policy.
The departments dealing with educational institutions, hostels and welfare homes etc were directed to ensure proper functioning of the intuitions at ground level with adequate safety and sanitation arrangements for the inmates.
Development Commissioner Asit Kumar Tripathy advised the departments to prepare a data base of the old cases with update information from the office of the Advocate-General so that they could be monitored properly.
Emphasising on achievement of targets under various flagship programmes, the Chief Secretary directed officers to achieve the targets by end of February of current fiscal year.
Review of the fiscal performance showed that total budget expenditure up to November, 2018 has been Rs 61,876 crore which is more than 49 per cent of the allocated amount in both the main and supplementary budgets.
The expenditure by November has grown by more than 22 per cent over corresponding period of last fiscal year.
The total programme expenditure in social sector by end of November of current year has grown by 46 per cent (with actual spending of Rs 18,380 crore) over the corresponding period of l2017-18.
The total expenditure in infrastructure sector has reached Rs 9131 crore marking a growth of around 5 per cent over the corresponding period of last fiscal.
Similarly, the total expenditure in agriculture and allied sector has touched Rs 6,976 crore. Keeping pace with the expenditure, the total revenue generation has also grown around 17 per cent by end of November 2018.
The total revenue generation by November end in last fiscal year (2017-18) was around Rs 22,291 crore against which current year collection up to same period has been Rs 26,123 crore. The revenue from non-tax sources have grown by 64 per cent with a total collection of Rs 7,563 crore while the revenue from own-tax sources has grown by 5 per cent with total collection of Rs 18,560 crore.
The revenue generation from mining royalty and industrial water rate has increased around 75 per cent and 12 per cent respectively. The total collection from mining royalty has been around Rs 6,350 crore against last years’ collection of Rs 3,620 crore up to November end.
Similarly, the revenue collection from industrial water has grown up to Rs 408 crore against last years’ collection of Rs 365 crore during the same period.
Padhi directed all departments to submit their requirement proposals by December 15, 2018. It was decided that pre-budget scrutiny meeting of the proposals for programme expenditure would be done by Planning and Convergence Department. Finance department would take up the scrutiny of other matters.