The State’s fiscal performances till July 2017 showed an upward trend with revenue collection increasing by 15 per cent and Budgetary spending by 23 per cent.
This was revealed at the all Secretaries’ meeting held under chairmanship of Chief Secretary AP Padhi at the Secretariat here on Wednesday. Finance Principal Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey presented the fiscal updates for discussion.
Padhi directed all departments to keep track up Central allocations and follow up the pending allocations through use of the online Public Finance Management System (PFMS).
It was revealed that total Budget expenditure up to July, 2017 was around Rs 26,921 crore against Rs 24,918 crore spent during the corresponding period of the last year, 2016-17.
Expenditure in various programmes up to July, 2017 recorded an increase of around 23 per cent in comparison to the last year. The programme expenditure up to July, 2016 was around Rs 13,209 crore which increased to Rs 16,305 crore by end of July 2017 this fiscal.
While agriculture and allied sector expenditure increased by 22 per cent, social sector recorded an increase of 52 per cent.
Similarly, the total revenue collection till July, 2017 was increased by around 15 per cent. While revenue collection up to July 2016 was Rs 8, 492 crore, it increased to Rs 9,766 crore by July, 2017 this year. Own Tax revenue has grown by around 12 per cent with total collection of Rs 7552 crore and the nontax revenue has grown by around 26 per cent with total collection of Rs 2,214 crore.
The disposal of grievances received through e-abhojog was reviewed in the meeting. The Chief Secretary advised the Principal Secretaries and Secretaries of various departments to regularly review the progress in this matter and to focus on actual service delivery at field level.