The Plan-implementing Departments of the Delhi Government have improved their spending of the Plan Outlay in the first quarter of the current financial year compared to the same period last fiscal, official said.
With an expenditure of Rs.2,168 crore during the first quarter of financial year 2014-15, the utilisation of Plan funds was 13.6 per cent of the approved Annual Plan Outlay of Rs.16,000 crore.
In the corresponding period last year, only Rs.1,864 crore or 11.7 per cent of approved Outlay was utilised.
“The Public Works Department has utilised 18.5 per cent or Rs.592 crore of their Plan Outlay of Rs.3,202 crore on various projects in the first quarter of the current financial year. In the Water Supply and Sanitation sector, 17.5 per cent of the allocated Plan Outlay has been utilised, followed by 16 per cent in Education sector, 14 per cent in Transport and 13 per cent each in Health, Urban Development and Social Security and Welfare,” a Delhi Government statement said.
On the revenue side, all revenue-generating Departments have cumulatively collected Rs.5,689 crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal, which is 18 per cent of the total tax revenue target of Rs.31,571 crore. The Value Added Tax contributed the maximum to the State exchequer.
“The collection under VAT during the first quarter is Rs.3,743 crore [17.8 per cent of the target], followed by Rs.827 crore [17.2 per cent of the target] under stamp and registration fees, Rs.696 crore [19.3 per cent of the target] under State excise, Rs.363 crore [22.7 per cent of the target] under taxes on motor vehicles and Rs.60 crore from other taxes and duties,” the statement added.
