The Eknath Shinde Maharashtra government on Thursday tabled supplementary demands of ₹55,520.77 crore in the state assembly on the first day of the winter session of the legislature here. The supplementary demands, which are additional funds sought by the government over the budgetary allocation, were tabled in the House by Finance Minister Ajit Pawar.
Of the total, supplementary demands of ₹19,244.34 crore were described as mandatory expenditure, while demands of ₹32,792.81 crore are required for various ongoing programmes and schemes of the state government, a note issued by the finance department said. Besides that, supplementary demands of ₹3,483.62 crore are towards the state's contribution to the ongoing schemes of the Union government, it said.
"There are several ongoing schemes which require a portion of financial expenditure from the state's coffers," a finance department official said. The actual impact of these supplementary demands on the state treasury would be Rs 48,384.66 crore, the note said.
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(Edited by : Sangam Singh)
First Published: Dec 7, 2023 3:19 PM IST
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