The AAP Government today proposed a budget outlay of Rs 37,750 crore for 2015-16 and presented a vote-on-account for the next three months in the assembly as it will come out with a full-budget in June after holding wide-ranging consultations with citizen groups.
Presenting the vote-on-account, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the total budget estimates of Rs 37,750 crore included Rs 15,350 crore for plan expenditure and an outlay of Rs 21,500 crore for non-plan expenses.
Sisodia, who holds the Finance portfolio, said government has set a target of collecting Rs 32,641 crore as taxes in 2015-16 while Rs 681 crore will come from capital receipts and Rs 1,327 crore will be generated as non-tax revenue.
He said government will get Rs 325 crore from Delhi's share in central taxes, Rs 395 crore as normal central assistance and Rs 900 crore from the Centre for its schemes.
Sisodia said the demands for grants for the full year 2015-16 will be revised at the time of presentation of regular budget.
He said the full budget will be presented after holding deliberations with the citizens who elected the government with an "unprecedented historic mandate".
"Our Government has decided to formulate the budget taking into consideration the present and future needs of residents of Delhi in order to address their issues, problems and difficulties. We intend to work in complete partnership with the common man for addressing their issues and problems and for preparation of future plans," he said.
The Deputy Chief Minister said the government has already started working in this direction by constituting the Delhi Dialogue Commission under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister and consisting of a team of experts from different fields.
"We intend to have a fresh look into the complete budgetary process and prepare such plan for optimum utilization of our resources," he said.
Talking about the current fiscal, Sisodia said the budget utilization remained on the lower side and around 61 per cent of plan outlay was utilised upto February.
He said revenue receipts of the government have also declined, adding budget size was reduced from Rs 36,766 crore in budget estimates to Rs 34,790 crore in revised estimate.
