The Planning Commission approved Rs 16,300 crore for Jharkhand for 2012-13 against the last financial year’s allocation of Rs 12,232 crors. The state had demanded for Rs 15,323 crore for last year which the Planning Commission had curtailed due to non-utilization of approved funds made by Planning Commission.
Chief minister Arjun Munda told the Planning Commission that Jharkhand needed a central package like Uttar Pradesh and special concessions like Bihar as the state’s various development projects were being seriously affected.
Munda put a further demand from Planning Commission for Rs 1,500 crore under the Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF) to upgrade the rural other roads.
Chief minister informed the Planning Commission that the state government had earmarked land for setting up the new state capital where high court and secretariat buildings would come up.
