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Bellary ZP approves Rs. 50.75 crore budget

By Our Staff Correspondent

BELLARY, JAN. 31. The Bellary Zilla Panchayat on Friday approved a Rs. 50.75-crore budget for 2004-05. It has sought Rs. 25.75 crore from the State Government and Rs. 24.99 crore from the Centre.

The budget for 2003-04 was Rs. 46.41 crore, including Rs. 23.04 crore from the State Government and Rs. 23.37 crore from the Centre. Contrary to the instruction by the State Government to limit the budget proposals to be submitted to it to that of 2003-04 (Rs. 23.04 crore), the panchayat forwarded proposals amounting to Rs. 39.78 crore.

Stating that the estimates fixed by the Government were not sufficient even to meet the salary of the staff of Health, Education, and Animal Husbandry departments, the panchayat forwarded a supplementary Budget, seeking an increase of Rs. 16.71 crore. Against the demand for Rs. 39.78 crore, the State Government temporarily fixed the estimates at Rs. 25.75 crore for 2003-04.

In addition, the Government had instructed the panchayat to make provision for an allocation of Rs. five lakh each to gram panchayats in the Link Document.

In its additional proposals, the panchayat had sought enhanced allocation for Education, Health, Animal Husbandry and Social Welfare departments, and for rural water supply, and nutrition.

In the budget for 2004-05, the panchayat has allocated Rs. 2.20 crore for education, Rs. 6.99 crore for health, Rs. 1.10 crore for rural water supply, Rs. 1.21 crore for social welfare, Rs. 1.05 crore for special component plan, Rs. 1.66 crore for nutrition, Rs. 97 lakh for women and child welfare, Rs. 52 lakh for agriculture, Rs. 67 lakh for animal husbandry, Rs. 80 lakh for social forestry, Rs. 10 lakh for horticulture, Rs. 17 lakh for Swarana Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana, Rs. 40 lakh for Desert Development Programme, Rs. 14 lakh for Integrated Rural Energy Programme, Rs. 1.38 crore for SGRY, Rs. 1.30 crore for Indira Awas Yojana, Rs. 9.45 crore for gram panchayats, Rs. 20 lakh for taluk panchayats, Rs. 77 lakh for roads and bridges, and Rs.10 lakh for Tribal Sub-Plan.

Of the Rs. 24.99 crore expected from the Centre, the panchayat has allocated Rs. four crore to family welfare, Rs. 4.04 crore for rural water supply, Rs. 4.89 crore for women and child welfare, Rs. 1.20 crore for Desert Development Plan, and Rs. 3.92 crore for Indira Awas Yojana.

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