The Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government on Monday tabled supplementary demands of Rs 8,609 crore in the state assembly on the first day of the Maharashtra Budget session.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and state finance minister Ajit Pawar tabled the supplementary demands, which are additional funds sought by the government over the budgetary allocation, in the legislative assembly, followed by the council.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who holds the finance and planning departments, presented supplementary demands of Rs 8,609.17 crore against Rs 55,520.77 crore tabled in the winter session last year.
“I table the supplementary demands of Rs 8,609.17 crore before the House,” Pawar said.
Of the 8,609.17 crore, supplementary demands worth Rs 5,665.48 crore are for mandatory spending and demands worth Rs 2,943.69 crore are required for various ongoing programmes and schemes.
Despite supplementary demands of Rs 8,609.17 crore, the net burden will be Rs 6,591.45 crore.
As per the supplementary demands note, demands of Rs 2,210 crore were for financial assistance to farmers whose crops were destroyed due to the unseasonal showers, hailstorms and water scarcity.
Meanwhile, demands of Rs 1,438.78 crore were for repayment of outstanding loans of Mumbai Metro Line 3, Nagpur Metro Line and Pune Metro Line.
During the winter session in December last year, supplementary demands of Rs 55,520.77 crore were tabled in the state legislature and eventually cleared.
The five-day Maharashtra Budget session commenced on Monday and an interim budget for the year 2024-25 will be presented by the state government on Tuesday. The session will be held till March 1, during which Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar will present the interim budget in the election year.
The vote-on-account or interim budget is the permission that government seeks from the house to spend the funds for a few months in the financial year or a period till the newly elected government takes over. The newly elected government then presents the full budget.
On the first day on budget session, legislators of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi staged a protest before the start of the Budget session of the Maharashtra legislative assembly, accusing the government of misleading the Maratha and Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities.
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