Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, Dec 17: The two days General Council meeting started with CEC, LAHDC, Rigzin Spalbar strongly condemning the inhuman act of terrorist in Pakistan and a two minutes mourn was observed in the assembly for the souls of 132 school children and other nine killed by the terrorist to rest at peace.
With the Model Code of Conduct still in force, CEC made it clear that no demands, decisions or announcement will be made in the meeting. The GCM focused on the financial progress report under District Plan till ending Nov., 2014. The HoDs of every Deptt gave a detail of department’s achievements and expenditure incurred by end of Nov., 2014 through power point presentation.
Giving a brief note on implementation of District Plan 2014-15 and other centrally sponsored scheme CEC, Spalbar informed that the approved allocation under district plan for the current financial year 2014-15 is Rs. 9352.13 lakh of which Rs. 1497.32 lakh under Revenue Component, Rs.3239.36 lakh under Normal capital, Rs. 251.75 lakh under SSA (funds to be released directly to the Ujala society by the Planning Deptt), Rs. 1125.00 lakh under Projectization, Rs. 1200.00 lakh under NABARD Loan Assistance and Rs. 2038.70 lakh under Tied/Earmarked (AIBP).
Out of this total allocation the Planning and Development Deptt has released/authorised to utilize Rs. 839.79 lakh under Revenue Component, Rs. 1619.68 lakh under Normal capital and Rs.562.50 lakh under Projectization, Rs.600.00 lakh under NABARD Loan, thereby making the total release under capital component of District Plan as Rs. 2782.81 lakh. No funds under AIBP have been released so far, added Spalbar.
Out of the total release of Rs. 2782.18 lakh, an amount of Rs. 2522.40 lakh incurred as expenditure by the end of November, 2014, which includes Rs. 707.24 lakh under Revenue Component, Rs.853.63 lakh under Normal capital and Rs. 437.53 lakh under Projectization and Rs. 524.00 lakh under NABARD. A detail of allocation and expenditure of projects under UIDSSMT and Integrated Housing & Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) was also given.
Spalbar reiterated that Govt. is fully committed to provide services for the public welfare be it in terms of subsidy or incentives or offering sponsored schemes and benefits. He added that it is the public who needs to come forward and avail these services to make themselves self sustainable in long run without staying dependent on outside source and subsidy.
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