Bhubaneswar: Chief Secretary Pradeep Kumar Jena has asked the Departments to take expeditious steps to utilize the additional provisions without resorting to unnecessary parking outside State Exchequer.
As the Appropriation Bill for the Supplementary Budget, 2023-24 has been voted by the Assembly and enacted on 3 October, 2023, Chief Secretary advised the senior officials in this regard.
Chief Secretary Shri Jena reviewed in a meeting of all secretaries held at Kharavela Bhawan on 4 October.
Development Commissioner, all Additional Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and Secretaries of different departments were present in the meeting and participated in the discussion.
In the meeting achievement of different departments for the month of September 2023 have been reviewed by Chief Secretary, said an official Press Note.
Fiscal Performance of the State and individual departments during first half of FY 2023-24 were discussed, including progress of expenditures of DMF & OMBADC Fund.
Total expenditure as percentage of Budget provision is 34.87Percent compared to 25.61Percent during the same period previous year.
Sector wise program expenditure was reviewed. Fisheries & ARD Department has achieved a growth of 158 Percent over the previous year expenditure during the same period of previous year.
In Infrastructure sector, Energy department has achieved highest growth of 2400 per cent over the previous year. Own Tax revenue has experienced significant growth of 14.59 Percent up to September, 2023 over the previous year mainly on account of good performance by GST and Electricity Duty.
Disposal of pension cases was also discussed in details and advised to expedite the process. Follow up action on issues discussed in All Secretaries meeting and Collectors’ Conference held during the month of September were also reviewed.