First ever budget of extended tenure of JHADC MDC passed

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMarch 8, 2024

The Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council (JHADC) on Friday passed the budget for the financial year 2024-25 of the first ever extended term of MDC.

Notably, the JHADC was established in 1964 by the then Assam Government by bifurcation of the United Khasi Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council and in its sixty years of existence this is the first time that the term of the MDC was extended by the Meghalaya Government.

The budget passed by the NPP led Executive Committee under the leadership of Chief Executive Member Thombor Shiwat is a deficit one for the sixth consecutive financial years.

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Shiwat placed the budget estimate of receipt and expenditure on the opening day of the budget session on Thursday where the estimated receipt is Rs. 204,63,23,500 and the estimated expenditure is Rs. 218,22,60,300 resulting in a difference of Rs. 13,59,36,800 between the receipt and expenditure or in short a deficit budget.

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The break up of the budget allocation is as follows:-

• General Administration
  Council Fund 11,76,48,200, Grand Total 11,76,48,200

• Finance & Accounts Department
  Council Fund 31,33,19,000, Grand Total 31,33,19,000

• Land Revenue & Land Reform Department
  Council Fund 11,17,36,800 Government Grant 21,34,700, Grand Total 11,38,71,500

• Land Record & Land Settlement Department
  Council Fund 6,84,84,700 Government Grant 3,54,04,700 Grand Total 10,38,89,400

• Taxation Department
  Council Fund 4,03,88,900 Government Grant 55,24,400 Grand Total 4,59,13,300

• Forest Department
  Council Fund 15,65,18,100 Government Grant 76,05,900 Grand Total 16,41,24,000

• Political Department
  Council Fund 4,34,93,200 Total Grand 4,34,93,200

• Civil Works Department
  Council Fund 11,14,62,200 Government Grant 53,43,30,000 Grand Total 64,57,92,200

• Education Department
  Council Fund 24,47,57,100 Government Grant 50, 00, 000 Grand Total 24,97,57,100

• Art And Culture Department
  Council Fund 62,37,400 Government Grant 1,75,00,000 Total Grand 2,37,37,400

• Market, Agriculture Soil & Fishery Department
  Council Fund 3,25,91,900 Government Grant 16,70,00,000 Total Grand 19,95,91,900

• Statistics And Information Department
  Council Fund 1,51,79,200 Grand Total 1,51,79,200

• Stationery & Printing Department
  Council Fund 1,42,34,800 Grand Total 1,42,34,800

• Planning Department
  Council Fund 1,20,41,900 Total Grand 1,20,41,900

• Judicial Department
  Council Fund 2,79,20,400 Grand Total 3,09,20,400

• Legislative Department
  Council Fund 7,89,54,800 Grand Total 7,89,54,800

• Village And Town Administration Department
  Council Fund 97,92,000 Grand Total 97,92,000