Parliamentary Affairs Minister Indira Hridayesh presented the Rs 29835.
16 crore, including Rs 24474.46 crore through receipt and Rs 4351 crore through loan, budget for the year 2014-15 in the Assembly on Thursday. As per the estimate, the State Government would spend Rs 30353.78 crore in next financial year. It means the State Government has presented Rs 528.62 crore budget deficit. Although the State Government has presented Rs 682.43 crore revenue surplus budget, in reality the State has to meet the expenditure by borrowing around Rs 4400 crore for the next financial year.
The Opposition has criticised the Budget and said that this year again, the Government’s non plan expenditure is bigger than the plan expenditure. It means the Government is not going to execute any development schemes in next financial year. Talking to media persons, Chief Minister Harish Rawat appreciated Hridayesh for presenting a ‘good budget’.As per the Government expectation, they would receive Rs 24474.46 crore while it was mere Rs 18955.72 crore in 2013-14, which is an increase of 29.11 per cent. In which government is expecting Rs 12157.26 crore from tax revenue receipts and Rs 12317.20 crore from non tax revenue receipts including mining, power and else. As per the estimate, the State Government is going to spend Rs 11677.23 crore in plan budget and Rs 18676.55 crore in non plan budget.
State Government is going to spend Rs 4705 crore including Rs 2947.93 crore in interest payment against existing loan and Rs 1757.79 in loan repayment in the year 2014-15. According to the budget estimate, the Government has allocated Rs 2424.48 crore for pension in 2014-15. In next financial year, the State Government is going to spend Rs 9193.95 crore, while it was mere Rs 7846.95 crore. The State has allocated Rs 3708 crore as gender budget, which is 14 per cent higher than the current financial year.
As part of decentralization of revenue administration, state government has decided to create nine new Tehsils including Doiwala, Narsan, Dug-Nakuri, Sama, Nainbagh, Jalasu, Narayanbagarh, lamgarh and Bangapani. Being a Haridwar MP, chief minister Harish Rawat has also taken care of Haridwar lok Sabha constituency and decided to open two schools under the name of Babu Jagjiwan Ram for class I–XII for Schedule Caste will be established in Makkhanpur, Baghwanpur of Haridwar district. later such schools will be established in each district of the State.