Finance Minister Shashi Bhusan Behera on Wednesday presented the Supplementary Budget of Rs 12,790 crore for 2018-19 in the State Assembly, taking the total Budget Estimate of the year to Rs 1,32,818 crore.
The Minister tabled the Supplementary Budget amid ruckus as BJP Members had kept demanding fulfillment of teachers’ demands in the Well of the House.
The State Government made budgetary allocation of Rs 750 crore for salary towards regularisation of Shiksha Sahayaks, Rs 350 crore was for loan repayment, Rs 41 crore for conduct of joint of Lok Sabha and Assembly polls and Rs 1,364 crore for disaster response.
Obviously in view of coming elections, the Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Department was allocated the highest allocation of Rs 3141.74 crore, Rural Development Department allocated Rs 2269.55 crore, Disaster Management Department Rs 14,14.76 crore, School and Mass Education 1210.12 crore, SC and SC Development, Minorities and Backward Classes Welfare 435.46 crore, Health and Family Welfare Rs 400.60 crore and Home Department has been allocated 273.07 crore.
Out of the programme expenditure provision of Rs 9,611 crore, Rs 6,097 crore has been allocated for infrastructure and rural development sector, said the Minister.
Behera informed that a provision of Rs 400 crore has been made under BASUDHA scheme to provide drinking water, Rs 1,500 crore for Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana and Rs 2,065 crore for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.
At a Press meet, Finance Secretary Tuhin Kant Pandey said the State has collected own revenue of Rs 13,068 crore during the first four months of the current year, a 33 per cent increase over the corresponding period.
Similarly, the State Government has received Rs 968 crore towards GST. The State has incurred 4,000 crore this year and its total loan rose to Rs 76,000 crore, said the Secretary.
When asked about Budgetary provision for the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana, Pandey said a total of Rs 2,070 crore has been set to be spend for providing health coverage to people. While the State Would spent Rs 1,300 crore, the Centre would provide Rs 770 crore, he said.
However, the Health and Family Welfare department later made a clarification that the BSKY is a fully State-funded scheme.