Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Saturday expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the wake of the decision of the Central Government to accept most of the suggestions sent by the Government of Jharkhand for increased financing to the State ahead of the 14th Finance Commission.
The decision was taken on Saturday in the Niti Ayog meeting attended by the CM in New Delhi. As per the decision, the State will get benefitted with Rs3,890 crore even with the grant of Rs1729 crore in Centrally Sponsored schemes. The State will get Rs5620 more this time ahead of the 14th Finance Commission and the funding for MGNREGA schemes will also continue.
The CM after attending the meeting said that the Centre had accepted most of the suggestions given by Government of Jharkhand in the last meeting held at Bhopal. He said that the Niti Ayog had decided to continue funding for MGNREGA, while in other important decisions it has kept areas of human development in core sector that include education, health, welfare, rural development and urban development.
Das further said that on the request of the State Government law and order and judicial system had also been included in the core sector. Without improvement in law and order and the judicial system, development cannot be done flawlessly, he added.
Principal Secretary, Finance Amit Khare said that the Niti Ayog had decided to keep funding of core sector on 60:40 ratio, while the funding for voluntary schemes will be done on 50:50 ratio.
looking at the development projectile of the state governments, the Central Government has stressed on adopting more flexibility in their schemes — the Niti Ayog has accepted the proposal. This will enable the State Governments to get Central funding easily and labour payments for several schemes running in the State, including Sahiya, Anganwadi Sevika etc would continue like earlier.