Budget Session of Jharkhand Assembly from Jan 17 to Feb 8, 2019
TNN Bureau. Updated: 1/13/2019 4:51:59 PM
Politics
Ranchi, Jan 13: The Budget Session of Jharkhand Assembly will be held from January 17 to February 8 during which the annual budget of the state for fiscal 2019-20 will be tabled in the house on February 22.
A decision in this regard was taken today in the meeting of the state cabinet which was held at Bio-Diversity park at Lalkhatanga here and was chaired by Chief Minister Raghubar Das.
Briefing the press at the end of the cabinet meet, additional chief secretary finance Sukhdeo Singh said that the cabinet has given approval from retrospective effect for the budget session which would be held from January 17 to February 8, 2019.
He said a total of nine proposals were passed in the cabinet meeting which also included setting up of a new medical college in Karma (Koderma) which would be set up at a cost of Rs 328.41 crore. Under the project, the district hospital will be upgraded to a 300 bedded hospital and new medical college hospital will be set up.
Similarly, the Sadar hospital in Chaibasa would be upgraded to a 300 bedded hospital at a cost of Rs 314.35 crore and a new medical college would also be set up.
Mr Singh said that the cost of expenditure for both the projects will be given in the ratio of 60:40 out of which the share of the Union Government will be sixty per cent. He said since the centre has put a freezing cap of Rs 150 crore therefore jointly for both the projects a sum of Rs 300 crore will come from the centre will the remaining expenditure will be met by the state government from its own resources.