West Bengal Governor CURRICULUM VITAE Ananda Bose on Tuesday contacted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asking her federal government to submit a record to him outlining exactly how Rs 1.17 lakh crore of main funds set aside to the state in the 2023-24 monetary under different plans were used, a well-placed resource in the Raj Bhavan claimed.
Bose composed the letter after he was notified that the state federal government has actually not positioned numerous Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) records in the setting up, breaking the constitutional commitment, he claimed.
“The West Bengal government has been allotted Rs 1.17 lakh crore of central funds in financial year 2023-24. There are allegations of gross misuse of those funds. The fiscal situation of West Bengal is confronting multiple fiscal risks and public financial management issues,” the resource informed PTI, pricing quote the letter.
In his interaction, Bose additionally highlighted several of the concerns such as monetary shortage which expanded from around Rs 33,500 crore in 2018-19 to about Rs 49,000 crore in 2022-23 while the GSDP-debt proportion increased from 35.69 percent to over 37 percent throughout the duration.
Bose additionally claimed that a considerable part of public financial debt invoices was made use of by the state federal government for financial debt payment from 2021-22 to 2022-23.
“The West Bengal federal government has actually additionally profited extremely from succeeding Finance Commission honors. As per the Fifteenth Finance Commission Award, the state federal government has actually been suggested to obtain a profits shortage give of Rs 40,115 crore from 2021-22 to 2024-25. This give is as high as 13.62 percent of the complete earnings shortage give suggested by the Fifteenth Finance Commission for the states.
“In 2023-24, out of total revenue of Rs 2.13 lakh crore of West Bengal, central transfer alone was Rs 1.17 lakh crore constituting around 55 per cent of the total revenue of the state,” the resource claimed.
Reportedly, 6 of the CAG’s audit records on the West Bengal federal government had actually not yet been tabled in the setting up, he claimed.
The 6 records pending for positioning prior to the setting up are the Compliance Audit Report 2020-2021 (Report No 2 of 2022), Audit Report 2020-2021 (Report No 3 of 2022) 3), the State Finances Audit Report (SFAR) 2021-2022 (Report No 1 of 2023), the Audit Report 2021-2022 (Report No 2 of 2023), Performance & & Compliance Audit Report 2021-2022 (Report No 1 of 2024) and the State Finances Audit Report (SFAR) 2022-2023 (Report No 2 of 2024), the resource included.
In the letter, Bose described the stipulation in Article 151 of the Constitution of India under which audit records of CAG, connecting to the accounts of a state will be sent to the guv, that will create them to be laid prior to the setting up.
The guideline additionally recommended that the state federal government required to start activity to make sure that the CAG records were tabled in the setting up, Bose stated.
The guv additionally advised upon the state federal government to guarantee monetary carefulness, and openness and putting the exact same prior to the cupboard, to provide a White Paper on the monetary scenario in the state.
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