SIKKIM: Chamling concerned at rising non-plan expenditure
Gangtok, Jul 30 (PTI) Faced with the prospect of Rs 824 crore expenditure on the payment of salaries alone to the government employees in 2009-10, Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling today asked the government departments to ensure fiscal management and generation of additional revenue.
“We would have to spend Rs 824 crore on salaries to the government employees this fiscal after implementation of the 4th pay commission as against Rs 514 crore in this head in the previous fiscal,” he said in the state assembly.
The state government must take measures for proper fiscal management, including reduction in various expenditure through austerity measures for keeping the non-plan expenses in control, he said.
The Chief Minister asked the bureaucracy to work for generation of additional revenue by development and promotion of tourism and other industries as part of the plan for financial self reliance long term.
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