Raipur, July 29, 2010
The state Assembly on Thursday passed the government’s first supplementary budget with 43 demands for grants for the period 2010-11. The Opposition legislators during the debate on grants pointed out that funds sought for various departments were not needed and must be slashed.
The grants for Rs 984.58 crore for various departments under the supplementary budget of year 2010-11 comprised Rs 240.31 crore grant received after recommendation of 13th Finance Commission, Rs 139.49 crore for agriculture, Rs 19.35 crore for police, Rs 31 crore for expenditure related to Commercial Tax department, Rs 20 crore for PWD, Rs 39 crore for School Education department, Rs 17.83 crore for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection department, Rs 80 crore for expenditure on areas hit by natural calamities and drought-hit places, etc.
Chief Minister Raman Singh informed the House that the 13th Finance Commission had recommended an aid of Rs 42,000 crore for Chhattisgarh which was more than twice the aid recommended by the 12th Finance Commission that was Rs 12,000 crore.
Centre will adopt Chhattisgarh PDS model: CM
Raipur, July 29, 2010
Chief Minister Raman Singh informed the state Assembly that the Centre had decided to adopt the state’s Public Distribution System (PDS) model throughout the country. “This indicates how effective and successful strategy we have made to ensure proper flow of foodgrains to the end beneficiary,” said Singh after the legislators of both the ruling and Opposition parties participated in the debate on demands of grants for first supplementary budget of the current fiscal.
Singh said in spite of the criticisms of Opposition Congress in the state, the Centre had appreciated the BJP-led Chhattisgarh government and had even termed it a prototype in making effective use of the PDS. “We achieved this stage only through our commitment. We identified 36 lakh poor families eligible for PDS out of state’s 2.10 crore citizens,” said Singh pointing towards other states where huge amount of rice are being rotting in open air due to rains, but the respective governments are not formulating any strategy to disburse it to the poor and needy. “It is strange that the rotting rice in various states would sold to make liquor, but why not these governments sell the rice to the poor at low rates before it rots? This is how the poor will get foodgrains while the excess stocks of rice would be cleared,” said Singh.
Denying the charges of the Opposition that the government was constructing dams and anicuts only to benefit the industries, Singh said the plan was actually to store water by constructing dams and anicuts as the excess water flows to sea. “About 32 anicuts have been constructed in river Shivnath and each is more than 4-5 feet deep. This water is completely stored for irrigation purpose and the industrialists would not get access to it,” he said.
He further denied the allegations that the government was selling power to the industries and other states and said the government make use of the power produced according to the demand and sell the excess electricity as it could not be stored. “We also have to purchase power during peak hours, but we compensate any monetary loss by selling surplus power during normal hours,” he explained.
Supplementary budget worthless: Choubey
Raipur, July 29, 2010
The Leader of the Opposition Ravindra Choubey says that the government’s supplementary budget was worthless as the demands for grants could have been included in the main budget. “The government is confused. It lacked vision and anticipation and hence it had tabled supplementary budget,” said Choubey during the debate on demands for grants of supplementary budget in the state Assembly on Thursday.
He said the maximum provisions would make the bureaucrats more unruly who were virtually steering the government and neglecting the common people.
He said the demands for grant in agriculture sector too aimed to benefit the insurance companies as none of the farmers was getting actual advantage of the provision. “The government should increase the validity period of smart cards from one year to five years so that the farmers could take its optimum benefit,” he said.
He said the state was still reeling under various problems and lack basic infrastructure including road, water, electricity, health, education, etc. The funds sanctioned for the development projects were not reaching to the end beneficiaries but are directly going into the pockets of the corrupt officials and network of people involved in scams and irregularities, he alleged.
He reiterated that the government solely wanted to make profit by providing the irrigated lands to the industrialists to establish power plants and other units. “The glaring example is Janjgir-Champa where about 23 power plants would be established according to government’s pacts with the industrialists,” he said.
He also held the Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar responsible for failing to maintain law and order in the state. “Kanwar is helpless. He can only take action on small group of criminals like the petty illegal liquor sellers, especially dhabawallas,” he said.
Choubey challenged Kanwar that he would have to lose his minister’s post if would dare to take action against any liquor contractor of Raipur.
Resolution to provide PDS rice to APL families passed
Congress stages walkout, demands amendment in resolution
Raipur, July 29, 2010
Amid opposition Congress members' walkout, the state Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution seeking an additional 93 metric tonnes of foodgrains from the Centre for covering about 12 lakh Above Poverty Line (APL) families in the state under the Public Distribution System (PDS). Opposing the resolution and demanding amendment in it, the Congress staged walkout from the House.
Describing the move as ''vote bank politics'' of the Raman Singh government, the Congress members said they would only support the resolution when the state government would promise to provide rice and wheat to the APL families at Rs 3 per kg like the BPL scheme being implemented under the Chief Minister's Food Security Programme.
Food and Civil Supplies Minister Punnulal Mohle, who moved the resolution in the House in the presence of Chief Minister Raman Singh, sought 61,000 metric tonnes of rice and 32,000 metric tonnes of wheat per month from the Centre to provide these essentials at subsidised rate to all APL cardholders.
While the treasury bench members, including Devji Bhai Patel and Subhau Kashyap, supported the resolution, Congress legislators, including Leader of Opposition Ravindra Choubey, Mohammad Akbar and Dharmjeet Singh alleged that it was a ploy to benefit the rice mafias.
Criticising the government for detection of 250,000 bogus BPL ration cards in a special drive across the state, the Congress members demanded that the government should ensure that foodgrains would be distributed among APL families at the BPL rate instead of falling into the hands of rice mafias.
As the Food Minister stated that the APL families would be provided rice and wheat at the rate the state would get those foodgrains from the Centre, the Congress members staged a walkout in the Assembly paving the way for passing of the resolution without opposition.
The state Assembly on Thursday passed the government’s first supplementary budget with 43 demands for grants for the period 2010-11. The Opposition legislators during the debate on grants pointed out that funds sought for various departments were not needed and must be slashed.
The grants for Rs 984.58 crore for various departments under the supplementary budget of year 2010-11 comprised Rs 240.31 crore grant received after recommendation of 13th Finance Commission, Rs 139.49 crore for agriculture, Rs 19.35 crore for police, Rs 31 crore for expenditure related to Commercial Tax department, Rs 20 crore for PWD, Rs 39 crore for School Education department, Rs 17.83 crore for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection department, Rs 80 crore for expenditure on areas hit by natural calamities and drought-hit places, etc.
Chief Minister Raman Singh informed the House that the 13th Finance Commission had recommended an aid of Rs 42,000 crore for Chhattisgarh which was more than twice the aid recommended by the 12th Finance Commission that was Rs 12,000 crore.
Centre will adopt Chhattisgarh PDS model: CM
Raipur, July 29, 2010
Chief Minister Raman Singh informed the state Assembly that the Centre had decided to adopt the state’s Public Distribution System (PDS) model throughout the country. “This indicates how effective and successful strategy we have made to ensure proper flow of foodgrains to the end beneficiary,” said Singh after the legislators of both the ruling and Opposition parties participated in the debate on demands of grants for first supplementary budget of the current fiscal.
Singh said in spite of the criticisms of Opposition Congress in the state, the Centre had appreciated the BJP-led Chhattisgarh government and had even termed it a prototype in making effective use of the PDS. “We achieved this stage only through our commitment. We identified 36 lakh poor families eligible for PDS out of state’s 2.10 crore citizens,” said Singh pointing towards other states where huge amount of rice are being rotting in open air due to rains, but the respective governments are not formulating any strategy to disburse it to the poor and needy. “It is strange that the rotting rice in various states would sold to make liquor, but why not these governments sell the rice to the poor at low rates before it rots? This is how the poor will get foodgrains while the excess stocks of rice would be cleared,” said Singh.
Denying the charges of the Opposition that the government was constructing dams and anicuts only to benefit the industries, Singh said the plan was actually to store water by constructing dams and anicuts as the excess water flows to sea. “About 32 anicuts have been constructed in river Shivnath and each is more than 4-5 feet deep. This water is completely stored for irrigation purpose and the industrialists would not get access to it,” he said.
He further denied the allegations that the government was selling power to the industries and other states and said the government make use of the power produced according to the demand and sell the excess electricity as it could not be stored. “We also have to purchase power during peak hours, but we compensate any monetary loss by selling surplus power during normal hours,” he explained.
Supplementary budget worthless: Choubey
Raipur, July 29, 2010
The Leader of the Opposition Ravindra Choubey says that the government’s supplementary budget was worthless as the demands for grants could have been included in the main budget. “The government is confused. It lacked vision and anticipation and hence it had tabled supplementary budget,” said Choubey during the debate on demands for grants of supplementary budget in the state Assembly on Thursday.
He said the maximum provisions would make the bureaucrats more unruly who were virtually steering the government and neglecting the common people.
He said the demands for grant in agriculture sector too aimed to benefit the insurance companies as none of the farmers was getting actual advantage of the provision. “The government should increase the validity period of smart cards from one year to five years so that the farmers could take its optimum benefit,” he said.
He said the state was still reeling under various problems and lack basic infrastructure including road, water, electricity, health, education, etc. The funds sanctioned for the development projects were not reaching to the end beneficiaries but are directly going into the pockets of the corrupt officials and network of people involved in scams and irregularities, he alleged.
He reiterated that the government solely wanted to make profit by providing the irrigated lands to the industrialists to establish power plants and other units. “The glaring example is Janjgir-Champa where about 23 power plants would be established according to government’s pacts with the industrialists,” he said.
He also held the Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar responsible for failing to maintain law and order in the state. “Kanwar is helpless. He can only take action on small group of criminals like the petty illegal liquor sellers, especially dhabawallas,” he said.
Choubey challenged Kanwar that he would have to lose his minister’s post if would dare to take action against any liquor contractor of Raipur.
Resolution to provide PDS rice to APL families passed
Congress stages walkout, demands amendment in resolution
Raipur, July 29, 2010
Amid opposition Congress members' walkout, the state Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution seeking an additional 93 metric tonnes of foodgrains from the Centre for covering about 12 lakh Above Poverty Line (APL) families in the state under the Public Distribution System (PDS). Opposing the resolution and demanding amendment in it, the Congress staged walkout from the House.
Describing the move as ''vote bank politics'' of the Raman Singh government, the Congress members said they would only support the resolution when the state government would promise to provide rice and wheat to the APL families at Rs 3 per kg like the BPL scheme being implemented under the Chief Minister's Food Security Programme.
Food and Civil Supplies Minister Punnulal Mohle, who moved the resolution in the House in the presence of Chief Minister Raman Singh, sought 61,000 metric tonnes of rice and 32,000 metric tonnes of wheat per month from the Centre to provide these essentials at subsidised rate to all APL cardholders.
While the treasury bench members, including Devji Bhai Patel and Subhau Kashyap, supported the resolution, Congress legislators, including Leader of Opposition Ravindra Choubey, Mohammad Akbar and Dharmjeet Singh alleged that it was a ploy to benefit the rice mafias.
Criticising the government for detection of 250,000 bogus BPL ration cards in a special drive across the state, the Congress members demanded that the government should ensure that foodgrains would be distributed among APL families at the BPL rate instead of falling into the hands of rice mafias.
As the Food Minister stated that the APL families would be provided rice and wheat at the rate the state would get those foodgrains from the Centre, the Congress members staged a walkout in the Assembly paving the way for passing of the resolution without opposition.
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