Chief Secretary B.K Agarwal chairs meeting to review implementation of budget assurances

5 Dariya News

Shimla 03-Nov-2018

A meeting to review the implementation of budget assurances of state budget for year 2108-19 was held here today under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary B.K Agarwal.The Chief Secretary said that as many as 131 assurances of different departments have been given in the budget out of which 80 have been implemented and the work was on progress on remaining.He directed the officers concerned to finalise the modalities at the earliest for the schemes announced in the budget so that work on all schemes could be started without delays. He said the state government has taken a decision to publish 'Jan Adhikaar' booklet to make people awards about the guidelines for taking benefit of government schemes.

The Chief Secretary directed all the departments to provide information about the welfare schemes being implemented by them so that these could be incorporated in this booklet.B.K Agarwal directed to ensure proper and timely implementation and monitoring of all schemes announced by the state government on regular basis. He stressed that the announcements made by the Chief Minister should be given top priority so that the people could be benefited.Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Anil Khachi directed the departments to provide information of their schemes well in time so that it could be uploaded on the government portal.Advisor, Planning Dr. Basu Sood conducted the proceedings of the meeting.