State plan to be decided by Jun 5
State still unable to furnish UC of last year's SPA budget
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 01 2012:
The State Plan budget for the financial year 2012-13 is likely to be decided by June 5 with Chief Minister O Ibobi planning to stay over in Delhi till June 5 to press officials of Union Planning Commission to make the state plan size as much as Rs 4000 crores.
According to an official source obtained from state Finance Department, officials from different Departments of the state also participated in the official level meeting of the working group held last week at Delhi along with the officials of the Planning Commission of India.
In the said meeting, state officials proposed various programmes to be carried out during financial year 2012-13 .
The source revealed that the state plan size for the financial year 2011-12, which was fixed at Rs 400 crores.
However, the plan size for the financial year, 2012-13 has been preliminarily fixed at Rs 1000 crores.
The source further revealed that Chief Minister O Ibobi will be attending a meeting along with officials of Union Planning Commission on June 5 during which state plan size would be finalized.
The Chief Minister will be pressing the Officials of the Planning Commission to increase the state plan size to 4000 crores including SPA, for the financial year 2012-13 .
After the state plan size for the financial year 2012-13 has been finalized by the Planning Commission, the state budget will be brought out in the Monsoon Session of the Manipur State Assembly, the source added.
Meanwhile, another reliable source revealed that the Utilisation Certificate (UC) of various development programmes taken up during the financial year 2011-12 with funding under SPA, amounting to Rs 400 crores, have not been submitted to the Planning Commission of India so far.
As such the funds for the last phase of SPA have been not sanctioned and there is every possibility of the said amount being lost unused.
Disclosing that the plan expenditure of financial year 2011-12 reached 75 percent, the source maintained that the plan size for the current fiscal year could not be finalized in time on account of the elections to the 10th Manipur State Assembly.
If the planned budget is not used up in the right manner, the plan expenditure of the present financial year may be even lesser, the source added.