The budget allocations under various heads in Chhattisgarh State Budget 2016-17 is expected to take into account Centre’s allocations made for implementation of various schemes and projects for Chhattisgarh during the current financial year.
Chief Minister Raman Singh in his meeting with Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely in New Delhi had already urged the Centre to make a provision of Rs4,000 crore in the Union Budget for the Bastar Development Plan.
It may be recalled that Chhattisgarh is among the seven worst left Wing Extremism (lWE) States which been allocated Rs228.56 crore as Additional Central Assistance (ACA) by Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had approved the State-wise allocation of Additional Central Assistance of Rs1,000 crore to 35 worst lWE affected districts in seven States.
Notably, the Central Government last year had approved a revised cost of Rs3,045 crore under its Road Requirement Plan (RRP) for improvement of road connectivity in left Wing Extremism (lWE) affected areas of Chhattisgarh.
The Chief Minister during his meeting with Union Finance Minister on Tuesday in New Delhi had also stated that the decision to provide 30 per cent of the royalty of the mining sector to Mineral Development Fund had affected the import competitiveness of the mining units. As a result, the Chief Minister urged that the mining units and the down stream manufacturing units should get income tax exemption on expenditure made by them on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.
Singh also urged the Union Minister to allow recommencement of scrap metal export from the Inland Container Depot in Raipur.
In July last year, Chief Minister Raman Singh had raised the issue of import clearance being denied on unshredded scrap at Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Raipur with the Central government.
Singh in his meeting with Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely had informed that due to non clearance of import, entrepreneurs have to go to Nagpur and Vishakhapatnam, resulting in wastage of money and time.
In June last year, the Chhattisgarh Government had proposed that the Centre should undertake the “Bastar Plan” for its integrated development on both economic and security fronts.
Overall, the Centre has approved a Road Requirement Plan (RRP) for improvement of road connectivity in left Wing Extremism (lWE) affected areas of a total of 34 districts in 8 States covering 5477 km length (1126 km NHs & 4351 km State Roads).
In Chhattisgarh, the fund had been approved for improvement of road connectivity in left Wing Extremism (lWE) affected areas measuring 2019 kms .
As per details of Physical Progress achieved as on March 1, 2015 under RRP, the length of road completed between 2010-11 to 2014-15 in the insurgency infested areas in Chhattisgarh upto February 28,2015 was 868 kms. As per the State-wise details of fund allocated and expenditure incurred under lWE scheme, Chhattisgarh made expenditure of Rs 190 crore between 2010-11 to 2014-15 upto February 28, 2015.