Welfare, education and health, agriculture and irrigation section are likely to get priority in the allocation of funds in the budget estimates for 2017-18 to be presented in the Assembly on Monday.
According to officials sources, the budget for 2017-18 is likely to have separate allocations for SC Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub-Plan under the head of SC Development Fund and ST Development Fund, respectively, as the government is planning to meet all spending for the two sections from the respective funds.
As the practice of Plan and non-Plan budget estimates is being given the go-by from the coming financial year the new budget would have allocations under the heads of capital and revenue expenditure. The funds which would remain unspent in the sub-plans for Dalit and tribal communities would be allocated afresh in the next budget in addition to the expenditure planned for that year, instead of carrying forward the funds as mandated in the Sub-Plans Act.
Another new in the coming budget is expected to be vocation-wise allocation of funds to backward classes communities as expenditure on communities such as washermen community and hair-dressers (nayibrahmins) would be service-oriented. For communities such as fishermen, sheep-rearers and pig-rearers the expenditure would be for asset creation, the sources explained.
New welfare scheme
Besides, funds would also be allocated separately for most backward communities which were being neglected all through. As hinted by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao in the Assembly on Saturday, a new welfare scheme was on the anvil for handloom weavers.
The sources stated that spending on some programmes such as Mission Bhagiratha, Mission Kakatiya, double-bedroom housing and irrigation projects would be in addition to the allocations to be made in the budget estimates.
