Imphal, November 17 2008: State planning department has asked all the departments under the Manipur government to submit plan proposal for the year 2009-10 within November 20 stating that the department is to expedite the preparation of the plan proposals for aannual plan 2009-10, an official source said Monday.

During the month of October this year, mention may be made that the state planning department had asked all departments to commence preparation of the plan proposals in respect of their department by stepping 20 percent over the current year's outlay.

The preparation of the state annual plan with 20 percent over the current year's outlay is amidst the apprehension of state receiving impact of poor expenditures of the annual plan amounts in the previous years.

Like the previous years, in the first half of the fiscal year only 12.70 percent had been reported spent against the revised outlay of Rs.1702.91 crores of annual plan 2008-09 for the state of Manipur.

While expressing of getting impacts of continuous poor utilization of plan fund state chief minister had also in a plan review meeting held recently advised all the departments to expedite and also asked to make sustained efforts for improving the plan expenditure and to achieve 70 percent utilization within December this year.

As per information available with the state planning department only Rs.216.25 crores (12.70%) are reported to have been spent against the revised of Rs.1702.91 crores under the annual plan, 2008-09 till the end of the first half of the current fiscal year in September.

The reported status of the plan expenditure statement available with the state planning department stated that as many as 37 to the sector and sub-sector reported zero expenditure till the last day of September last.

The expenditure status of the other remaining sectors and sub-sectors were also not far below the 25 percent even though 19 of them cross 25 percent in spending the outlay to their respective sector or sub-sector.

There are a total of 86 sub-sectors under different sectors of the state government which are under the control of around 60 departments.

Planning Commission of India, mention may be made here approved an outlay of Rs.1660.14 cores as annual plan size for 2008-09 for the state of Manipur.

But after revised the same for two instances, the final total outlay become Rs 1702.91 cores.

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