The Planning Commission on Tuesday finalised a budget outlay of Rs. 1,737.65-crore including a Central assistance of Rs. 35 crore to Goa for the next fiscal of 2008-09. This year’s outlay is 21% more then last year’s budget.
The plan was finalised at a meeting held in New Delhi between Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluawalia and Chief Minister of state Digambar Kamat.
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The Planning Commission today finalized the budget outlay of the Annual Plan (2008-09) for Goa at Rs 1737.65 crore which is an increase of 21.5 per cent over the previous year.
This was decided at a meeting held in New Delhi on Tuesday between Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat and the Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia. The chief ministerwas accompanied by Finance Minister Dayanand Narvekar, Deputy Chairman of State Planning Board Dr. Wilfred de Souza , Chief Secretary J P Singh and other senior officers of the State, according to an official statement issued here.
However, Ahluwalia has asked to Chief Minister Kamat to pay more attention towards tourism and mining sectors. Goa has always been among the major tourism places for visitors. “Besides these, CM should need to focus more attention towards agro-tourism, agro-processing and organic farming”, cited Ahluwalia.
The decreasing rate of secondary level of education and increasing gender gap are the major areas of concern, added Ahluwalia in his statement.
Presenting the development report before the Commission, Kamat said that Goa would continue to focus on social development with increased participation of private sector. The per-capita income of the state is highest in the country, which is three times to the national per-capita income.
The Central grant for national games was considered after the chief minister impressed upon the Planning Commission the contribution that Goa makes to the government of India and urged to provide additional central assistance in view of the 2011 National Games proposed to be held in Goa and for development and maintenance of infrastructure with a special thrust on road network for the State of Goa. Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission agreed to honour the commitment made by the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and decided to setup a task force under the chairmanship of principal adviser (transport), Planning Commission to work out the modalities for the Central Assistance towards development of road network in Goa.
The Deputy Chairman Planning Commission expressed satisfaction on the healthy socio-economic indicators exhibited by Goa and stated that the State has immense potential to create high-end quality educational institutions which would generate economic activities.
He further stated that the Goa can be projected as a ‘Model State’ in view of its excellent budgetary performance and socio-economic indicators, the statement said.
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