Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Thursday launched Jharkhand Government’s innovative web portal-mybudget.jharkhand.gov.in that would enable anyone, including residents of the State, Government officials, workers, social sector representatives among others to discuss and suggest issues pertaining to the State budget for the year 2016-17.
The Govt has launched the portal to enable people’s participation in the development of the State, thus, enabling them to suggest what policies could be best suited for them. launching the portal CM said that small initiatives may bring big results therefore innovative works should be preferred in the 2016-17 Annual Budget. The CM asked Secretaries of all departments to share best practices of their career so that people of the State get benefit of their experience. A practical Budget should be prepared after discussion with experts of respective fields so that policies in the interest of farmers, labourers, women and poor people of the State could be framed.
Das said that for the first time gender budget provison is being made for the benfit of women, under which 30 per cent or more than that of funds will be aimed for schemes of social and economic development of women.
A presentation, prepared by Planning cum Finance Department showed that certain points are proposed to make the next budget people oriented. (i) ‘Mera Budget link’ for the people’s suggestions (ii) “Gender Budget” for schemes (iii) “Outcome Budget” for women empowerment and (iv) “Zero based Budget” for review of the schemes have been prepared.
The CM said that for the first time the government has adopted proper budgeting process to channelize the schemes. He said that the state officers will ensure negligible misuse of people’s money so that the real goal of the schemes can be achieved.
Praising the team work spirit of the state officials, the CM said that the Prime Minister himself praised the spirit of the officers and staffs of J’hand. He said that J’khand has become the optimum State for investment owing to these endeavors.
“The people of the State want speedy development and we will achieve this. I advise to use IT to maximum extent to eradicate bribery, middleman ship and ensure transparency in the system. A pre-budget discussion will be held with stake holders and concerned-experts on Commissionery level,” he said.
Principal Secretary, Planning cum Finance Amit Khare said that 31 schemes have been implemented & 17 are in the pipeline out of the announced 48 schemes in the 2015-16 budget by the CM. He laid stress on inter-departmental coordination proposal before budgeting. He said that this budget should be outcome budget targeted to achieve physical & financial goals.
In the current financial year 2015-16, Rs. 9157.04 crore has been laid on planned expenditure heads which is 29 per cent of total Plan budget of Rs. 31,690.59 crore. Comparing the expenses, Das said that though it is more than the last year’s expenditure, but we should endeavor to ensure 40 per cent expenditure.
A department wise review is proposed by the CM after Dusshera. The total revenue collection is 6136.80 crore which is 30.5 per cent of the targeted Rs 20,200 crore.