The new financial year 2025-26 of the state government has started from Tuesday. The Finance Department has issued guidelines for budget income and expenditure for all administrative departments. From this financial year, the CAMPA funds will be used on the lines of the centrally funded scheme.
This decision was taken by the high-powered committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary, which has been included by the Finance Department in its guidelines. According to the guidelines issued by Secretary Finance Dilip Jawalkar, 80 percent of the approved amount of capital outlay will be on ongoing schemes. Only 20 percent of the amount can be spent on new schemes.
Like every year, the Finance Department has instructed all departments to be economical. The Finance Department will approve new works of more than Rs 1 crore only if the unique ID generated from the Gati Shakti portal is mentioned on it. The departments will have to send the report of the scheme-wise works to the Finance Department by April 30.
New financial approval for capital works should not be given in the last quarter. For this, the Head of the Department, Administrative Department along with the concerned Finance Expenditure Control Department has been made accountable. The Finance Department has not considered the tradition of approving schemes on the basis of token amount to be appropriate. It has been said that due to less funds, work on the scheme continues which increases both time and cost.
Such works should be reviewed and those on which work has not started should be cancelled and approved on the basis of their re-estimation keeping in mind the availability of budget. The department has first asked to reimburse the amount withdrawn from the State Contingency Fund. Such capital schemes of departments on which more than two crores are likely to be spent from the state sector have been asked to be mandatorily proposed under SAACI.
