Union Territory Chandigarh gets increased Budget allocation for 2013-14

CHANDIGARH: UT administration's Budget allocation for 2013-14 has gone up by 19% in plan and 20% in non plan over the previous year. Chandigarh has got special allocation for purchase of 150 new buses, a government college for girls, 150 schools and a polytechnic.
In plan, an increase of 19% has been given and has fixed the ceiling of plan Budget to Rs 876.05 crore as compared to current year's Budget allocation of Rs 737.23 Crore.Under non plan Budget against the BE (Budget estimates) of Rs 2178.78 crore last year, the BE 2013-14 has been fixed at Rs 2615.56 crore. There is an increase of 20% in non plan Budget.
The important thrust areas of the next year's plans are education (19.83%), health 12.21%), urban development (29.72%), transport (15.00%), housing (5.54%), social security and social welfare (2.18%). In the next year's plan, there will be an effort to upgrade the city of Chandigarh further by providing better infrastructure, implementation of IT and responsive governance system.
Meanwhile, municipal corporation has been allocated funds to the tune of Rs 146.60 crore in Plan BE (2013-14) to carry out various developmental works under different services.
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