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| 189.78 Crore spent without budget provisions | | | JAMMU, FEB 11
Another glaring example of financial indiscipline being practiced in Jammu and Kashmir has come to light in the recently submitted Comptroller Auditor General report for the year ending March 31,2006.The report was tabled in the state assembly in the budget session.
According to the CAG report, an expenditure of Rs 189.78 crore was incurred under 38 major heads of the accounts covering 20 grants without any provision for expenditure having been made in the budget.
The CAG report also noted that the reasons were doing so were not intimated by the concerned departments till September 2006 adding that the expenditure in the absence of budget provision reflects financial indiscipline and lax monitoring system othe departments. Out of 20 departments, forest department tops the chart as it incurred expenditure to the tune of Rs 41.30 crore without any budget provisions followed by housing and urban development department as it incurred an expenditure of Rs 26.83 crore without any budget provisions. Planning department with Rs 19.39 crore,Tourism department with Rs 19.34 crore, education department with Rs 18.39 crore secure thrird ,fourth anf fifth place in the order of spending without any budgetary provisions. Industries and commerce department and health and medical education departments spent least amount of Rs 1.14 lakh and 0.68 lakhs respectively surpassing budget provisions.
Public works department incurred an expenditure of Rs 10.28 crore, higher education department Rs 14.62 crore, and Rural development department Rs 13.09 crore more than their budgetary provisions. Expenditure of Law department exceeded to the tune of Rs 3.65 crore over and above budget provisions while agriculture department utlised Rs 37.13 lakh extra than its allotted budget.
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