Supplementary demands for Rs. 2639 cr. grants

NEW DELHI, DEC. 13. The Government today introduced in the Lok Sabha, supplementary demands for grants for additional expenditure of Rs. 2639 crores this financial year involving a cash outgo of only about Rs. 1572 crores.

Introducing the second batch of supplementary demands for grants this year, the Finance Minister, Mr. Yashwant Sinha, said this included a Rs. 500 crore transfer for the National Calamity Fund as recommended by the Eleventh Finance Commission and Rs. 300 crores for modernisation of the State police forces.

As many as 27 grants and one appropriation are included in the supplementary demands for grants which seek to authorise gross additional expenditure of Rs. 2639.09 crores.

Of this, a gross additional expenditure of Rs. 1067.11 crore is matched by savings by the Ministries concerned, resulting in a cash outgo of only Rs. 1571.79 crores.

The additional expenditure also included a Rs. 200 crore subsidy to Uttar Pradesh (Rs 135 crores) and West Bengal (Rs. 65 crores) for the public distribution system.

The Fluid Control Research Institution gets an additional grant of Rs. 316 crores while the power sector gets a grant of Rs. 319 crores for the Badarpur thermal power station, assistance to the north eastern States and Sikkim for electrification of tribal villages.

- PTI

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