NEW DELHI, Dec 18: The Government today sought Parliament’s approval for additional expenditure of Rs 66,113 crore, which includes funds to roll out schemes for providing electricity connections to the poor and payment of urea subsidies.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley moved the second batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants for 2017-18 in the Lok Sabha.
Approval of the Parliament is sought to authorise gross additional expenditure of Rs 66,113.44 crore, said the document on ‘Second batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants, 2017-2018’.
“Of this, the proposals involving net cash outgo aggregates to Rs 33,379.99 crore and gross additional expenditure, matched by savings of the ministries/departments or by enhanced receipts/recoveries aggregates to Rs 32,732.05 crore,” it said. Major spending heads include Rs 1,033.8 crore towards grants for creation of capital assets, subsidies and other charges for Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya). (PTI)
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