The utilisation under the State Plan Budget for 2014-15 has increased by 110 per cent over the last year’s expenditure by June 2014. The percentage of expenditure has been around 15 per cent of the plan budget for 2014-15.
A review in this regard was made at an All-Secretaries Meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Gokul Chandra Pati on Monday where Additional Chief Secretary Finance UN Behera presented the expenditure updates. The Chief Secretary advised formation of Secretary-level sub-committees which could meet more frequently to look into the implementation of the projects and remove the bottlenecks. The Chief Secretary directed that 60 per cent of the budget estimates be utilised by December. It was decided that the Integrated Odisha Treasury Management System (IOTMS) would not admit expenditure in excess of the 40 per cent of the budget during the last quarter of the current year.
The State Plan expenditure up to June 2014 was Rs4,909 crore. The utilisation in agriculture and allied sectors was around 18 per cent at Rs1,098.63 crore against the last year’s 10 per cent. This sector includes the Departments of Agriculture, Water Resources, Fisheries and Animal Resource Development, Cooperation and Energy (separate agriculture feeder).
The utilisation in building of Infrastructures was around 17 per cent of the budget of Rs1,171.59 crore against 15 per cent during the same period of 2013-14. The infrastructure sector includes the Departments of Works, Housing & Urban Development, Rural Development and Energy (other than agri feeder).
The expenditure in the social sector was Rs2,530.54 crore, which is about 17 per cent of the budget against the last year’s figure of 13 per cent. The concerned departments are School & Mass Education, ST&SC Development, Health & Family Welfare, labour, Panchyati Raj, Employment Training & Technical Education, Women & Child Development and Higher Education.