Nainital district administration has asked the officials concerned to ensure cent per cent utilisation of funds released to their respective departments by end of March 25, 2015.
Mention worthy, the administration has so far been able to utilise Rs 49.37 crore out of Rs 52.62 crore released to it under the district plan so far this financial year.
Similarly, it has so far spent Rs 16,492 lakh out of Rs 18,977 lakh released to it under the state sector plan. Besides, it has been able to spend Rs 13961 lakh out of Rs
15291 lakh under the Centrally sponsored schemes so far this financial year, the officials said.
However, with the current financial year coming to its fag end, Deepak Rawat, District Magistrate, Nainital, has asked the officials who have been slow in spending the fund released to their respective departments, to ensure full utilisation of the fund released to them under different sectors by March 25, 2015, to expedite the developmental process.
At the same time, he also said the officials who were not in a position to utilise the funds released to their respective departments till the given period of time may surrender the remaining funds.
Mention worthy, the State Government had released the district plan fund to all the districts in single instalment at an initial phase of this fiscal year instead of releasing the same amount in different instalments. The basic purpose of doing this was only to ensure timely utilisaiton of the said district plan fund.