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ZP approves surplus budget

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Rs.63 crores for drinking water

VIZIANAGARAM: The Zilla Parishad on Thursday approved an estimated surplus budget of Rs. 84.49 crores for the year 2008-09 after meeting Rs. 4,00.87 crore expenditure. Zilla Parishad Chairperson Baddukonda Appala Naidu has chaired the meeting.

The anticipated revenue during the fiscal was put at Rs. 485.36 crores. Presenting the budget, Mr. Naidu said that the government sanctioned Rs. 18 crores under the Backward Region Development programme and Rs. 188 crores under NREGP in addition to Central and State Government grants.

A sum of Rs. 63 crores for drinking water and and Rs. 26.71 crores for other schemes were proposed to be spent.

MLA’s demand

Soon after the budget meeting began in the ZP Conference Hall, Padala Aruna, a TDP MLA, quoting newspaper reports, demanded that the chairperson should clear doubts on the audit objections for Rs. 36 crores.

Senior Congress MLA P. Sambasiva Raju said that there was no precedence for such a discussion in the budget meeting.

When TDP district president and ZPTC member Yadla Ramana Murty joined Ms. Aruna, ZPTC member Botsa Appala Narasaiah, brother of Housing Minister Botsa Satyanarayana, while stating that they would not believe in newspaper reports, said there was no need for a discussion now. Conceding to their demand, the chairperson said the auditors pointed out 157 objections under various heads of accounts and they would be clarified in the next meeting.

Honorarium

Later, following an appeal from the members, a resolution appealing for enhancement of honorarium for ZPTC members and mandal parishad presidents from Rs. 1,500 per month to Rs. 5,000 was passed.

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