The district administration, Nainital has directed all officials concerned to ensure timely utilisation of funds released to their respective departments so that developmental works could be completed in due course of time.
The Government has already released an amount of Rs 5262.00 lakh to the district under the district plan, said Akshat Gupta, District Magistrate, Nainital. Out of this amount, an amount of Rs 2424.71 lakh have already been released to different departments under the same district plan for carrying out various developmental projects, said Gupta. Side by side, all the departments of the Nainital district have also spent an amount Rs 1970.81 lakh out of Rs 2424.71 lakh released to them under the district plan, said officials.
More so, among all 13 districts across the State, Nainital district has so far released a maximum amount under the district plan to different executive agencies in the district, maintained the officials concerned of the Nainital district administration.
As some of the departments have ensured cent percent utilisation of funds till end the of September 2014, so percentage of utilisation of funds under the district plan in Nainital district has so far gone up to is 81.28 per cent, said the officials concerned of the Nainital district administration. Therefore, other officials concerned departments are also supposed to utilised the funds released to their respective department on time, the Nainital district administration asked the officials concerned.
It is to note that State Government released cent percent funds in a single installment under the district plan to all 13 districts of the State this fiscal year. And this is the first time when a State Government has handed over the district plan funds to all the district in a single installment and that too at the beginning of the current financial year. End.