Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Jayant Malaiya on Wednesday tabled the third supplementary Budget of over Rs 5,889 crore for the current fiscal in the Assembly. Deputy Speaker Rajendra Kumar Singh allocated two hours for discussion of the supplementary Budget on Thursday.
The highlight of the supplementary Budget is allocation of maximum amount of more than Rs 1,843 crore for three-tier panchayati raj while Rs 800 crore has been allotted for the next years Simhastha Mela to be held in ancient temple town Ujjain. The other feature of this Budget is allocation of Rs 345 cr for repayment of debt obtained for the development work.
Earlier, Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Jayant Maliya during call attention notice, announced in the Assembly that a high-level committee would investigate into the case of producing heavy amount of electricity bill and registration of a false case by Essel Company in Sagar.
Maliya was replying to a calling attention notice of Shaliendra Jain of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. He was replying in absence of Energy Minister Rajendra Shukla.
In his statement, Jain said the company is making false cases in absence of the head of the family and handing over heavy inflated bills and also misbehaving with women.
The company gave contract to anti-social elements, he said. The matter will be cleared if one looks into the bill amount of 67,000 consumers after the company comes and before it, Jain pointed out. Maliya said a high-level committee, comprising members from Bhopal, would probe into the matter.