State’s spending up 16%, revenue19%

A review at the all Secretaries’ meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi on Friday here showed an overall increase of around 16.13 per cent in total Budget utilisation in the State by end of 2017-18 financial year.

The total programme expenditure up to March, 2018 was around Rs 51,188 crore against Rs 44,078 crore spent up to March, 2017.

Budget utilisation in social sector was around Rs 23,070 crore up to March, 2018 against total spending of Rs18, 687 crore during last financial year, thereby showing an increase of around 23.45 per cent. The programmes under this sector are principally administered through the departments of School and Mass Education, Scheduled Tribe and Schedule Caste Development, Health and Family Welfare, Labour and ESI, Panchayati Raj, Women and Child Development, Higher Education, Skill Development and Technical Education and Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability.

Similarly, the expenditure in agriculture and allied sector up to March, 2018 has been around Rs 11,365 crore which is around 4 per cent more than the expenditure of last year. The total expenditure during FY 2016-17 was around Rs 10, 953 crore. The expenditure in this sector principally is executed and monitored through the departments of Agriculture and Farmers Empowerment, Water Resources, Fisheries and Animal Resource Development and Cooperation.

The total programme expenditure in infrastructure development during the fiscal year 2017-18 has been around Rs12, 228 crore against that of Rs 11,623 crore during the FY 2016-17 with a growth of 5.2 per cent. The Budget utilisation in infrastructure building is undertaken mainly through the departments of Works, Housing and Urban Development, Rural Development and Energy.

Keeping in tune with the expenditure, the total revenue generation by end of FY 2017-18 has also increased by around 19 per cent in comparison to FY 2016-17.

The total revenue collection up to March, 2017 was around Rs 30,895 crore which increased to around Rs 36,730 crore by March, 2018. Own tax revenue grew  around 25 per cent with total collection of around Rs 28,682 crore and the non-tax revenue grew by around 1 per cent with total collection of Rs 36,730 crore. In spite of the slowdown in international market, the revenue collection from mining increased to the tune of around Rs 6,038 crore thereby showing a growth of around 22.58 per cent over the FY 2016-17.

Chief Secretary Padhi directed the departments to avoid the idle parking of money in some or other account.  Emphasizing on timely delivery of public services, Padhi asked all departments to link their online service delivery portals with the centralised monitoring system of Odisha Right to Public Services (ORTPS) developed by General Administration Department.