Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday directed the departments to enhance their capital expenditure to achieve the set targets by the end of the financial year besides pressing the Centre Government for the early release of central share under various welfare and development schemes.
Presiding over the meeting to review the budgeted expenditure of various departments for the financial year 2019-20 (Quarter-1) here in which Finance Minister, Capt. Abhimanyu was also present,the Chief Minister appreciated the efforts made by the departments as receipts are showing increasing trends particularly in GST receipts.
On this occasion, the Finance Minister explained the concept of ‘District Budget’ which inter-alia includes the financial disbursement of all the schemes being implemented in the district aligned under 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Output-Outcome Framework has been introduced for results-based monitoring of government spending. All Administrative Secretaries may use these two tools to monitor the implementation of schemes in districts and state.
Chief Secretary, Keshni Anand Arora directed the departments to achieve their revenue and expenditure targets, and ensure to carry out development works timely.
The Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Department, T.V.S.N. Prasad made a presentation on the receipts and expenditures for the first quarter of financial year 2019-20 and highlighted the instruments to improve the expenditure levels.While reviewing the department wise budget expenditure, the Chief Minister asked the departments to expedite the pace of work and complete maximum works in the month of August so that they could achieve their targets well in time.
Khattar said that besides his intervention, the department should also take up the matter with the central government for the early release of central share pertaining to various schemes of their concerned departments. An amount of about Rs 1000 crore has been received from the Centre up to June 2019. He also asked the departments to consolidate different schemes having the same goal as multiplicity of schemes could cause confusion among the beneficiaries.
It was informed that the departments have been asked to make extensive use of grant in aid portal. All type of grants are being provided to the departments through online system. It was informed that a reform has also been made in the NABARD Aided funds. Now, in case NABARD did not accord approval for a project or it gets delayed due to some reasons, the funds for the same would be provided by the State Government. It was further informed that Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Dashboard, a new mobile app would soon be provided to all the departments for reporting and monitoring of schemes and budget.
Among those present in the meeting included Chief Secretary, Keshni Anand Arora, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Rajesh Khullar, Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Navraj Sandhu, Additional Chief Secretary, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Sunil Gulati, Additional Chief Secretary, Excise and Taxation, Sanjeev Kaushal, Additional Chief Secretary, Mines and Geology, amongst others.