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Ajit Pawar tables Rs 5,417 cr deficit Maharashtra budget, tax exemption to continue

Ajit Pawar’s Maharashtra budget envisages revenue receipts of Rs 1,69,907 crore.

Maharashtra Finance Minister and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar today tabled a Rs 5,417.28 crore revenue deficit interim budget for 2014-15 in the state legislative assembly.

The budget envisages revenue receipts of Rs 1,69,907.55 crore and expenditure of Rs 1,75,324.83 crore for the next financial year.

The government has decided to continue tax exemption on items like wheat, rice, pulses, their flours, jaggery, turmeric and tamarind till next fiscal.

Such exemptions would also continue on coriander seeds, fenugreek, chillies, parsley, coconut, papad, wet dates, currants and raisins, Solapuri chaddars, towels and the current concession on tea till March 31, 2015, Pawar said.

“We had expected a small revenue surplus in the year 2013-14. Though we achieved revenue targets, we had to incur very heavy expenditure for natural calamity relief, electricity bill subsidy and such other necessary expenses.

“As a result, the revenue surplus has become a revenue deficit of Rs 3,017.23 crore. The decision taken this year, like electricity bill subsidy, etc. will also lead to substantial increase in revenue expenditure in 2014-15,” he said.

The draft plan of the state for 2014-15 has not yet been discussed with the Planning Commission, the Finance Minister said.

However, the plan size has been proposed at Rs 51,222.54 crore, keeping in mind the decisions taken by the cabinet, he added.

The Minister in his budget speech said: “I propose to obtain a vote on account to meet current expenditure of the state government on ongoing schemes for the first four months of the next financial year.

“I intend to present an additional budget to the House in the next session to be held after the Lok Sabha polls, which will include non-plan expenditure and new items of the plan for the next financial year.”

State proposes to allocate Rs 165 crore for development and maintainance of airports at smaller towns and cities

(fe Bureau) The Maharashtra state government has proposed to allocate Rs 165 crore for the development and maintainance of airports at smaller towns of the state during 2014-15, Deputy Chief Minister and finance minister Ajit Pawar said on Tuesday, while he presented the interim budget before the legislative assembly.

?The government is making efforts to create a network of airports in the state to facilitate trade and industry,? said Pawar during his budget speech.

?The work at the airports of Karad, Amravati, Jalgaon, Akola, Solapur are in progress, The work at the Shirdi airport is in the final stages,? he added.

Pawar also said that nodal agency CIDCO has procured all the necessary permissions to develop the Navi Mumbai Airport which when completed will be the country’s largest airport with a capacity to handle 60 million passengers yearly.

?The issues of land acquisitions have been resolved. The first stage of the airport is expected to be completed by 2018,? he added.

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First published on: 25-02-2014 at 17:35 IST
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