The State Government has incurred a total of loan of Rs 84,676.35 crore by December 2019 and has estimated to incur further loan of Rs 17,878 crore during the next year, 2020-21.
Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari informed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of Congress member Santosh Singh Saluja. The Minister too furnished information regarding sources of loans since the year 2008-09.
In another question of BJD MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, the Minister informed that Odisha would get Rs 36,585.74 crore as State share in the Central tax. The State is expected to get Rs 3,286 crore as its share in Central tax compared to the last year.