Development work has to be accelerated in the state and revenue collection has to be increased as well. In such a situation, all the departments should speed up revenue collection and explore possibilities for new sources of additional revenue collection,” instructed Chief Minister Hemant Soren today to senior officials in a high-level meeting with the Principal Secretary / Secretary of various departments in the Jharkhand Ministry regarding the fulfillment of additional responsibilities of new schemes started beyond the budget of the financial year 2024-25 and preparations for the supplementary budget of the financial year 2024-25.
The Chief Minister said that revenue management should be strengthened. Along with this, steps should be taken to control the waste of revenue and establishment expenditure. The Chief Minister also asked the officials to remove its flaws by doing micro level observation of the revenue generation system. He said that all departments should prepare an action plan for revenue collection.
The CM said that many times due to lack of coordination between the departments, the pace of revenue collection slows down and revenue collection is not done as per the target. In such a situation, to solve this problem, all the departments should coordinate with each other and do the work of revenue collection. For this, the responsibility of the officers of various departments in the districts should be fixed.
He said that there are many such agencies, boards and corporations in many departments which can prove to be a better means of revenue. Establish such agencies as a business model, so that they can expand their work. This will generate additional revenue for the state.
The CM said that many industries and companies are working in the state. Many public welfare schemes are implemented by them from the CSR fund. But, the information about the CSR amount spent by them does not reach the state government. In such a situation, create a mechanism through which the expenditure made by the companies in the CSR head can be checked. He also told the officers to talk to various companies and industry groups and explore the possibilities of increasing revenue.
Chief Secretary Alka Tiwari, Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister Avinash Kumar, Principal Secretary Ajay Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary Vandana Dadel, Principal Secretary MS Meena, Principal Secretary Sunil Kumar, Secretary Prashant Kumar, Secretary Praveen Toppo, Secretary Amitabh Kaushal, Secretary Abu Bakar Siddique, Secretary Kripananda Jha, Secretary K Srinivasan, Secretary Manoj Kumar, Secretary Umashankar Singh, Secretary Chandrashekhar, Secretary Arwa Rajkamal, Secretary Vipra Bhal, Secretary Jitendra Singh, Secretary Manoj, besides Sanjeev Besra, Amit Kumar, Nisha Oraon and Director of Directorate of Information and Public Relations Rajiv Lochan Bakshi were present in the high level meeting.
