The Union Budget for 2016-17 has allocated Rs727.75 crore for the country’s premiere investigation agency CBI, nearly a 32 per cent jump over the last fiscal that had provided Rs550.08 crore in the revised estimates of 2015-16.
The agency which is investigating several financial crimes like chit-fund scam and Vyapam scam among others spread across several States needed funds to augment its capacities and effectively conduct its probe into ongoing cases. The agency which has been facing severe staff shortage got a fillip with a boost in the allocation for the next fiscal, sources said.
The amount has been allocated for establishment-related expenditure of the CBI which is entrusted with investigation and prosecution of corruption cases against public servants, private persons, firms and other cases of serious crime, the budget document said.
It said the Budget allocation also includes provisions for CBI e-governance, modernisation of training centre, establishment of technical and forensic support units and construction of office and residential complexes of CBI branches.
The CBI comes under the Department of Personnel and Training Ministry of Personnel. Meanwhile, the Budget has allocated over Rs220 crore for the next fiscal to augment training facilities for bureaucrats.
Rs220.44 crore earmarked in the Budget for the Ministry is aimed to meet establishment-related expenditure of Institute of Secretariat Training and Management (ISTM), here and lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (lBSNAA), Mussoorie.
Both the ISTM and lBSNAA hold several training programmes to equip IAS, IPS and IFoS officers and all other levels of secretarial functionaries with adequate exposure to rules, regulations and aptitude. For current fiscal, the Ministry was allocated Rs213.22 crore for the purpose.