Maharashtra facing financial pressure due to new schemes, says Finance dept

“In twelvemonth 2024-25, the fiscal shortage has reached Rs 1,99,125.87 crore owed to the further budget and supplementary demands. The gross shortage of the authorities has gone beyond the 3 per cent mark. As a effect of the gross deficit, fiscal work and caller schemes announced by the authorities government, the authorities is facing a batch of fiscal pressure. In specified a situation, the authorities authorities cannot judge the further responsibility,” the Finance enactment connected the connection seeking revised administrative support said.

The enactment has not mentioned the sanction of immoderate scheme. However, nether the authorities government’s ambitious ‘Majhi Ladki Bahin’ scheme, each eligible pistillate supra 18 years gets Rs 1,500 per period successful her account. As per an estimate, the authorities volition beryllium spending Rs 46,000 crore annually connected this strategy which was announced successful the fund presented by Deputy CM and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar. Under Annapurna Scheme, the authorities volition beryllium paying for 3 escaped cylinders for Below Poverty Line houses. The authorities has besides committed itself to covering 100 per cent of the tuition and exam fees for higher acquisition of girls from Backward Classes and Economically Weaker Sections.

The Finance department’s enactment pointed retired that a State Sports Development Committee has been established arsenic per the authorities solution dated March 26, 2003 nether the State Sports Policy-2001. “The State Sports Development Committee sanctioned the out-of-policy proposals of sports complexes and beyond bounds money organisation which has led to the concern (of seeking revised administrative approval), which according to the Finance section is simply a substance of fiscal indiscipline,” it said. The Planning section excessively had made identical observation.

The Maharashtra authorities has a argumentation to make sports-related facilities nether the Maharashtra Infrastructure Development Plan. As per a authorities solution dated March 23, 2022, the authorities grant, to physique a sports analyzable with a caller administrative support of which operation has not begun, has been fixed astatine Rs 5 crore astatine tehsil level, Rs 25 crore astatine territory level and Rs 50 crore astatine divisional level sports complex. For sports complexes which are nether operation and request revised administrative approval, the authorities assistance has been fixed astatine Rs 3 crore astatine tehsil level, Rs 15 crore astatine territory level and Rs 30 crore astatine divisional level.

The State Sports Development Committee headed by the sports curate was formed connected March 26, 2023, which has the powerfulness to instrumentality decisions connected projects beyond the athletics argumentation and those with grants required much than the approved amount. The committee presented the connection successful the authorities furniture gathering earlier this week connected Monday.

Despite the Finance department’s objections, connected Friday a authorities solution sanctioned the revised administrative approvals. In this, revised administrative support of Rs 155.26 crore (which includes post-work support worthy Rs 75 crore); revised administrative support of Rs 184.42 crore to 9 sports complexes sanctioned extracurricular the argumentation guidelines and Rs 1441.38 crore revised administrative support to 141 sports complexes were cleared which volition beryllium taxable to caller argumentation guidelines to beryllium announced.