Bengal Government Turns Down Raj Bhavan’s Request For Additional Funds
The governor’s workplace had sought further budget of Rs 53.five lakh, authentic said. (Record)
Kolkata:
The West Bengal govt has grew to become down a request from the Governor’s Area to extend its price range allocation, a senior authentic stated on Monday.
The governor’s workplace had written to the state secretariat a few instances within the contemporary previous, searching for further budget of Rs 53.five lakh to satisfy on a regular basis bills.
The state govt, alternatively, expressed its incapability to allot extra budget, claiming that it has followed austerity measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The governor’s workplace had sought further budget of Rs 53.five lakh. As our state has followed positive austerity measures to maintain bills all the way through this pandemic, the request was once grew to become down,” the authentic on the state secretariat stated.
Significantly, the state finance division has slashed 50 consistent with cent of the price range allocated to the Raj Bhavan, and put aside Rs 16 crore for its expenditure in 2020-21 fiscal.
Consistent with the authentic, the federal government needed to minimize down on price range for all its departments, and now not simply the Governor’s Area, because it wanted budget to satisfy “unexpected expenditure”, if any, in the middle of the pandemic.
The state has additionally prolonged the duration for endeavor austerity measures from September to March 31 subsequent 12 months.
As a part of the measures, the federal government had stated in April that no new schemes can be taken up and pressing public passion programmes would require prior approval of the finance division.
It additionally stated that no acquire of automobiles, computer systems, IT-related equipment, furnishings, ACs and TVs could be made all the way through the duration.
