The Uttarakhand Assembly passed the supplementary budget for the year 2019-20 on Monday. The parliamentary affairs minister Madan Kaushik sought the permission of the house to give their consent for the bill of supplementary budget.
To fulfil its monetary obligations, the Uttarakhand Government had put up supplementary budget of Rs 2,533.90 Crore in the assembly for the remaining period of the current financial year on December 5. The State Government had presented a budget of Rs 48,663.90 Crore for the Financial Year 2019-20 in Atate Assembly in February this year.
In the supplementary budget, a provision of Rs 1606.33 Crore is made under revenue head while Rs 927.56 Crore is made under capital head. An additional provision of Rs 166.65 Crore under salary and Rs 37.18 Crore under pension heads is made in the document.
Before passing the supplementary budget, the supplementary demands of budgets of different departments were presented by the respective ministers in the house for approval. Apart from the supplementary bill on budget, the assembly also passed seven other bills which included Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj (second amendment), Uttarakhand former Chief Ministers facilities (residential and others) bill, Uttarakhand factories (amended) bill and Uttarakhand contract labour ( development and regulation) amendment bill- 2019.
The house also passed the Uttarakhand farm produce and Mandi (development and regulation) amendment bill- 2019, Uttarakhand Zamidari Abolition and land management bill (amendment)-2019 and Soban Singh Zeena University bill- 2019 on the day.