The Finance Department (FD) has advocated review of all ongoing schemes and discontinuation or merger of the schemes with an annual budget outlay of up to Rs 5 crore. Batting for the restructuring of the existing schemes, the FD asked the departments to discontinue or merge the schemes having an annual outlay of Rs 5 crore or less. This would enable the state government rationalise existing schemes to achieve optimum results with the given resources.

What Finance Department wants?

• Review all ongoing schemes for closing down those that serve no purpose
• Discontinuation/merger of the schemes having an annual outlay of below Rs 5 crore
• Clubbing together of schemes with similar objectives
• The 2020-21 Budget proposals should be realistic
• Sufficient funds for the timely completion of ongoing schemes