In the last month of March of the financial year 2025-26 in the state, a huge amount of about 4000 crores of the budget of capital works was spent. The tendency of departments to dispose of the budget in the last month and last days will now be strictly curbed. To comply with the instructions of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in this regard, the departments will prepare an action plan for monthly expenditure of the budget of capital works. If there is laxity in implementing it, then the annual budget of the concerned department will be cut. The government is giving special emphasis on the proper use of the budget to make the state financially healthy, but the functioning of the departments is coming in the way. The situation is such that the departments are not able to use the budget they propose for expenditure in the entire financial year. The budget allocated for capital works is not being used properly. However, despite all the initial difficulties in the financial year 2024-25, more than 11 thousand crores of budget amount has been spent in capital works. The other aspect of this is that out of this, an amount of 4000 crores was spent only in the month of March.
In view of the quality of budget expenditure, it is not seen as a healthy tradition. This is the reason why Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has given the target of spending 80 percent of the budget to the departments by December in the review meeting in the first week of this month. Finance Secretary Dilip Javalkar said that as per the instructions of the Chief Minister, each department has been instructed to prepare an action plan for monthly budget expenditure. The annual budget of the department which does not spend the budget as per the prescribed action plan will be cut. Along with this, more funds will be made available in the supplementary budget as an incentive to the departments that spend the budget on time.
