The pension for the freedom fighters have been hiked from Rs 7,000 to Rs 15,000 effective from December 2012, Chief Minister Raman Singh told the State Assembly here on Monday.
“There has been a hike also for 458 MISA prisoners of the emergency days in their honorarium which has been made effective from January 21, 2013,” he said.The Chief Minister said that the pension of a total of 222 MISA prisoners has been raised from Rs 6,000 to Rs 15,000 for those who were imprisoned for more than six months during the emergency days and for those 181 MISA detainees who were imprisoned for less than six months the pension had been raised from Rs 3,000 to Rs 10,000. Singh stated this while replying to a debate on the demands on budget grants of departments under him for 2013-14.
After the Chief Minister’s speech, the state assembly approved the demand on grants related to his department amounting to 4,801.37 crore by a voice vote. Out of the Rs4,801.37 crore, a total of Rs 811.45 crore has been earmarked for the Energy Department while Rs 31.05 crore had been earmarked for Finance and Statistics Department, Mineral Resources Department (Rs 268.83 crore), Finance Department ( Rs 260.80 crore), General Administration Department ( Rs 120.11 crore), Other expenditure related to General Administration Department (Rs 18.35 crore), Expenditure related to Public Relations Department ( Rs 79.40 crore) , Science and Technology and Biotechnology Department ( Rs 28.56 crore) and Aviation Department ( Rs 19.53 crore).
In the same way, the assistance grant received on the recommendations of the 13th Finance Commission has been fixed at Rs 77.09 crore. This apart, the expenditure related to demand for grants for district-level projects amounting to Rs 45 corre was also passed by the House. Singh said that the fiscal management of the State had been good and special attention has been paid to efficient utilization of the budget grants for the welfare of the general public. He said that the financial year had been divided into four quarters for daily monitoring of the expenditure and budget allocation of the various departments including the Treasury.
‘All Treasuries and sub treasuries have been made online through the ‘e-Treasury’ system with payments for the offices now made possible through the ‘e-Treasury’ system.
Moreover, a model estimate had been provided to all departments for the work on construction of government houses with the ‘unit cost’ fixed for each house construction so that departments may not make a separate estimate for construction of each house, the Chief Minister added.