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₹49.91 crore for Plan projects

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District panchayat projects revenue of ₹130.08 crore in 2018-19

The draft of Plan projects for the district panchayat has a total outlay of ₹49.91 crore for 2018-19

The Plan has allocated ₹14.8 crore for the production sector out of the development fund. An amount of ₹16.13 crore has been set aside for the housing sector. The allocation for women is ₹7.03 crore.

An amount of ₹3.51 crore has been earmarked for children, the differently abled, and transgenders, and an equal amount for the elderly and those in need of palliative care.

The district panchayat expects a revenue of ₹130.08 crore in the 2018-19 fiscal. Of this, ₹56.9 crore is from the general fund, ₹22.03 crore from the special component plan, and ₹1.73 crore from the tribal sub plan. It has also budgeted ₹49.4 crore for roads under the maintenance fund.

Meanwhile, the district panchayat has spent ₹64.25 crore of the ₹204.69 crore allocated for a total of 1,417 projects in the 2017-18 year. In the general production sector, it utilised ₹6.85 crore of the ₹23.60 crore allocated for 98 projects. In the services sector, it spent ₹23.04 core of the ₹71.99 crore for 578 projects.

In the general infrastructure sector, it utilised ₹23.12 crore of the ₹79.57 crore for 605 projects.

In the Scheduled Caste services sector, it utilised ₹6.84 crore of the ₹14.12 crore allocated, and in the infrastructure sector, it spent ₹3.28 crore of the ₹9 crore earmarked.

In the Scheduled Tribe infrastructure sector, it spent ₹7.72 lakh of the ₹50.5 lakh set aside.

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