Ranchi: Ahead of the Union budget on Tuesday, the Minister of Finance Ramehswar Oraon has asked the center to continue GST compensation given to countries for five years after the difficulties faced by Jharkhand due to the decline in state revenues thereafter the introduction of GST and due to the economic downturn induced .
In a letter to the Nirmala Union Finance Minister Sitharaman, Oraon has said that the state has faced the financial crisis in several fronts.
“The center of the funds in most sponsored schemes in the city center has been reduced over the past few years.
The center has stopped its assistance in many new schemes, as a result of which the financial burden of the scheme has fallen in the state,” he said, detailing that In the financial year of 2019-20 and 2020-21, the Devolution Fund from the Central Taxes was RS 20,593 Crore and RS 19,712.
“This year until December, the state only gets Rs 14,891 Crore as a fund for devolution for the financial year of 2021-22, thus influencing the country’s resources in adversely,” the letters are read.
Produce a center to continue GST compensation to another five-year country, Oraon said that if some settings are not provided, countries will be allowed to fight for themselves and that also without the resources they have.
The letter also reminded the center of difficulties faced by people in the mining districts of displacement provisions, environmental hazards and health problems.
He has asked the center to increase royalties on minerals identified for Ad-Valorem royalty to 20%.
He also asked him to enter another mineral in the same list and give royalties at the level of 20% ad-valorem.
Meanwhile providing a long list of pending train projects in Jharkhand, Oraon has attracted the central attention of the coderma-hazaribag-ranchi-ranchi and the other five where the country has given its part to the train in 2020 but still works on a stretch of 20 km from Barkakana To Sanki is waiting, which must be accelerated by the center of completion at the beginning.
He also asked Sitharaman to take arrangements for the Godda-Pirpainti Train, which was proposed by CM Hemant Soren in 2019.
He also urged the center to increase the frequency of several important trains such as Rajdhani Express, Gharib Rath, Beiaia-Yashwantpur and Hatitia-Pune Express, at States.
It has also underlined the need for IIT in the country’s capital and requested funds to establish AIIMS in Ranchi to add higher education in this country, Indira Gandhi’s old age pension scheme, Oraon has urged the Workers Government to provide RS 1,000 to beneficiaries, where RS 200 will come from the center and the rest is given by the state government.
“This center must consider increasing this number so that the burden on the state conditions is reduced,” the letter was read.