Chief Minister N. Rangasamy will present budget proposals for financial year 2014-15 in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday.
The Cabinet met under the Chief Minister Mr. Rangasamy and discussed the new proposals. They also gave final touches to the budget proposals. Ministers- M.Chandrakasu, P.Rajavelu, N.G.Pannir Selvam and T.Thiagarajan and Chief Secretary Chetan B.Sanghi also participated in the meeting.
Chief Minister Mr. Rangasamy, who is also holding finance portfolio, will present the budget at 10.45 a.m on Thursday.
The House will take up the motion of thanks on the Lieutenant Governor's address on September 12 and 15. After the conclusion of discussions on the motion of thanks, Chief Minister Mr. Rangasamy will make his reply to the House.
The House will take up discussions on budget on September 16 and 17. Later there will be discussion on the grants to the departments from September 18 to 24.
Meanwhile the Opposition parties dubbed the Lieutenant Governor’s address in the budget session of Legislative Assembly lacklustre and complained that it lacked any action plan of the ruling All India NR Congress Government.
Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee A. V. Subramanian said the government had not spent a big chunk of Rs. 2,000 crore earmarked by Planning Commission for fiscal 2013—2014. The increase in plan outlay to Rs 2,400 crore for this fiscal had largely been due to the sanction of funds for the coastal disaster risk reduction project.
He said the government had not mobilised any revenue to give a push to its sources of income.
R. Vishwanathan, secretary of Communist party of India(CPI), Puducherry unit said the Lieutenant Governor’s address did not reflect any future welfare schemes of government and said there was no word on the financial crunch faced by the government.
V.Perumal, secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) said the address did not contain any new policy of the government and it was mere compilation of programmes implemented earlier.
