Centre seeks nod for extra expense

New Delhi: The government on Monday sought Parliament's approval for additional expenditure of Rs 66,113 crore for FY18 to roll out schemes for providing electricity connections to the poor and payment of urea subsidies among others. Of this, the proposals involving net cash outgo aggregate to Rs 33,379 crore and gross additional expenditure, matched by savings of the ministries or by enhanced receipts/ recoveries aggregates to Rs 32732 crore. 

The Centre has also sought Parliament’s approval for “token provision” of Rs 1.3 crore — Rs 1 lakh for each item of expenditure — for enabling re-appropriation of savings in cases involving ‘new service or new instrument of service’. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley moved the second batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants for FY18 in the Lok Sabha. Major spending heads include Rs 1,033.8 crore towards grants for creation of capital assets, subsidies and other charges for Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya).