The All-Secretaries Meeting was held here on Friday under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary AP Padhi.
A review of the fiscal performance showed that Budget utilisation on different plans, programmes and schemes up to July has been Rs17, 983 crore thereby showing the growth of more than 10 per cent over corresponding period of the last fiscal year.
The social sector spending by July end has grown by 23 per cent (with actual spending of Rs 9,544 crore) over the corresponding period of last year.
Similarly, the expenditure under agriculture and allied sector hasreached Rs 3,516 crore and the expenditure in infrastructure sector has touched Rs 2,840 crore. The expenditure in agriculture and allied sector and infrastructure sector has reached Rs 3,993 crore and Rs 3,245 crore, respectively.
The total revenue generation has also grown around 33 per cent by end of July. The total revenue generation by July end in last fiscal year (2017-18) was around Rs 9,807 crore against which current year collection up to same period has been Rs 13,015 crore. The revenue from own tax sources during current fiscal has grown by 27 per cent with total collection of Rs 9,536 crore and the revenue from non-tax sources have grown by 51 per cent with a total collection of Rs 3,479 crore.
The revenue generation from mining royalty and vehicle taxes has shown highest increase of around 72 per cent and 42 per cent, respectively. The total collection from the mining royalty has been around Rs 3,039 crore against last years’ collection of Rs1,769 crore up to July end. Similarly, the revenue collection from vehicle tax has grown up to Rs 571 crore against last years’ collection of Rs 404 crore during the same period.