Prelim meeting for finalizing state expenditure

IMPHAL, April  5: The Chief Minister is to attend a meeting at the Planning Commission scheduled on April 23. The meeting will be held between the Deputy chairman of the Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and state CM Ibobi Singh to finalize the plan size for the financial year 2013-14 for the state.

Regarding the matter, a preliminary meeting is scheduled on Saturday at the Chief Secretary’s office at 11 am. The said meeting will be attended by representatives of all government departments.

Sources say that the deficit incurred during the last financial year ended with hardly a hundred crores and the plan size for 2013-14 may be beneficial for the expenditure of the state government.

It may be mentioned that the Manipur Legislative Assembly in its 4th session held on March last had approved a vote of accounts for an interim budget to incur the expenditure of the state government till July 2013.