CAG raps JK govt for spending Rs 1,961 Cr in violation of budgetary provisions

Jammu: In its report titled "State Finance" for the year ending March 31, 2016, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has rapped the J&K government for discrepancies related to budgetary spending during financial year 2015-16. The CAG report said that the Jammu and Kashmir government has spent Rs 1,961 crore during the financial year 2015-16 in "violation of budgetary provisions."
It was noticed that expenditure of Rs 1961.44 crore was incurred in 59 major heads of account without any (budget) provision during 2015-16," said the report.
The report was tabled in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly recently during its special session on GST.
This has been spent without provision in the original estimates and supplementary demand and without any re-appropriation orders to this effect, it said. According to the report, some of departments which made the highest expenditure without budget provision include the Social Welfare department, which spent Rs 533.96 crore while the Finance department Rs 517.65 crore. The Health and Medical Education department made an expenditure of Rs 286.67 crore while the Agriculture department of Rs 104.80 crore, the Rural Development department Rs 146.81 crore, the Industries and Commerce department Rs 85.52 crore, the Public Works Department (PWD) Rs 73.96 crore and the Planning and Development department of Rs 71.13 crore.