Aims revenue surplus by 2013-14, projects total expenditure of Rs 45,318.93 cr, pegs fiscal deficit at 2.06% of GSDP
The Haryana government presented on Monday the Budget for FY13 where no fresh taxes have been imposed with emphasis on the social sector, even while expressing optimism about attaining revenue surplus by 2013-14 through better tax realisation.
The state governement has widened the ambit of the social security pension sch-eme for workers in the unorganised sector and extended the scope of the Viwah Shagun Yojna to benefit girls from families with a land holding of less than two-and-a-half acres or have income of less than Rs 1 lakh per annum. It also announced the launch of a State Urban Health Mission to provide comprehensive hea-lth services in the urban areas.
The Budget estimates projected the total expenditure for FY’13 at Rs 45,318.93 crore. Of this, revenue expenditure is Rs 39,783.52 crore while capital Expenditure is Rs 5,535.41 crore, Finance Minister Har-mohinder Singh Chatha announced in his maiden budget.
The FY’13 annual plan is pegged at Rs 14,500 crore, which is 8.9 per cent higher than that of the current year. Further, an outlay of Rs 2049.49 crore for the Centrally Sponsored Schemes has been included on the Plan side, boosting the composite Plan Outlay in the budget estimates for 2012-13 to Rs 16,549.49 crore.
The size of 12th five year plan (2012-17) is pegged at Rs 90,000 crore, which is 157 per cent higher than a Rs 35,000-crore outloay of the 11th FYP.
The proposals impose no fresh taxes. The budget estimates project a revenue deficit of Rs 2,455.53 crore and fiscal deficit of Rs 7,596.82 crore. In per cent term, the fiscal deficit is estimated to be 2.06 per cent of the GSDP in 2012-13, which is within the prescribed limit of three per cent per cent. The revenue deficit is estimated as 0.66 per cent of the GSDP in 2012-13.
The revenue deficit for the state has come down, which is a “heartening sign”, the minister said. Haryana had remained revenue-deficit till 2004-05, and revenue-surplus till 2007-08. Soon, a revision in salaries as per the Sixth Pay Commission led it to incur revenue deficit.
Now, agriculture and allied sector would receive Rs 1,636.76 crore (which is Rs 312.33 crore higher than the current year), power Rs 5,237.72 crore, roads and transport sector Rs 4,080.42 crore, irrigation Rs 1,966.89 crore and public health engineering Rs 2,212.64 crore. Urban development gets Rs 1,761 crore; education Rs 8,245.58 crore, sports Rs 127.17 crore (Rs 43.72 crore); industrial training Rs 190.7 crore, technical education Rs 307.55 crore, health and family welfare Rs 1,653.03 crore, social justice and empowerment including the welfare of SCs/STs Rs 2,662.24 crore and the rural development & panchayat sector Rs 1,206.59 crore.
The Budget proposes free treatment facility to all children under the Indira Bal Swasthya Yojana, additional Rs1,000 to each women athlete under the Fairplay Scholarship programme, enhance maintenance allowance of special children below 18 years from Rs 300 to Rs700 per month, and effect “considerable hike” in the outlay for the social sectors. The Mahatma Gandhi Swavalmban Pension Scheme will be extended to the entire state so as to cover all sections of the rural and urban population in the informal or unorganised sector.
Wrestling akharas will get a one-time grant of Rs5 lakh each to boost infrastructure.
