Thiruvananthapuram: The second wave of Covid-19 seems to have taken severe victims in the progress of the planned fund project in the state.
With only one more month left for the second quarter of the ongoing financial year, the expenditure of the plan remains 16.2%, against the 60% regulatory book benchmark for the second quarter.
In accordance with the planning board data until August 30, out of 52 large departments, 25 have not reached two digits in connection with the percentage of expenditure of plan funds.
At the same time, unlike in the last financial year and the previous year, the government has not made a decision to cut department plan funds in the ongoing financial year.
While Rs 27,887 Crore is a total plan expenditure for 2021-22, which is only slightly higher than the previous financial year (i.e.
Rs 27,610 Crore), only Rs 4,517.30 Crore has been spent until August 30.
Financial progress made by local government institutions only only 8.76% (only Rs 638.01 Crore from Rs 7,280 Crore) which is even worse.
Not including LSGIS, the progress of the state plan was a little better at 18.81%.
A total of five departments, including the resignation community, the welfare of the health and welfare of the family, coir, the legislature and the public department, has been able to make significant progress in expenditure plans until now.
Interestingly, the legislative department has spent 1.88 crore Rs, despite the planned allocation for the department only Rs 92 lakh, which means the expenditure is 205.13%.
But given a little plan allocation, department expenditure does not assume important significance.
Departments, including taxes, minority welfare, law, industry (cashew) and general administration literally non-starters related to their plan expenditure because their expenses have not opened an account (general administrative restrictions that have spent 0.03% of the plan.
Allocation) .
The progress of the plan also shows that the funds set for the main infrastructure project, the allocation of Rs 750.03 Crore, are still non-starter with zero percent expenditure to date.
In the last financial year, after the first wave of Covid-19, the Planning Council has asked all government departments to reorganize their plan priorities for the first two quarters.
The government also then limits the expenditure of plans for the department to a maximum of 75%.
But this year, there are no instructions like that.