Hyderabad: Congress deputy leader in Legislative Council Shabbir Ali on Saturday demanded explanation from the TRS government over non-release of funds allocated in budget for the year 2014-15.
Speaking to media persons in Assembly premises on Saturday, Mr Ali said that as against the budget provision of Rs 100,637 crore for the year 2014-15, so far, only Rs 21,728 crore have been released. Furnishing the details, he said that the government has so far issued 1,125 Budget Release Orders for 114 heads of departments releasing an amount of Rs 21,728.99 crore. He said that the Telangana’s Budget was meant for 10 months from June 2014 to March 2015. However, the government released only 22 per cent of the funds. He sought to know when and how the remaining 78 per cent of the allocated funds would be released. Mr Ali said that the Congress had expressed doubts at the time when the TRS government introduced over Rs 1 lakh crore Budget, apprehending that the entire amount would not be released. But, at that time Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao gave an assurance that his government would release the allocated amounts. However, the figures clearly show that the apprehensions of the Congress were not wrong. He expressed doubts over the release of remaining 78 per cent funds before the end of financial year 2014-15 in March, 2015.
