{"id":314,"date":"2022-11-25T15:40:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/?p=314"},"modified":"2022-11-25T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T15:40:25","slug":"deputy-chief-minister-chowna-mein-attends-pre-budget-meeting-of-union-budget-2023-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein attends Pre-Budget Meeting of Union Budget 2023-24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEW DELHI, November 25:<\/strong> Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein while attending the Pre-Budget Meeting of the Union Budget 2023-24 chaired by the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman extended his sincere gratitude to the Ministry of Finance\u00a0under the guidance of Union Finance Minister for\u00a0prioritizing\u00a0development initiatives\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0frontier\u00a0state\u00a0of\u00a0Arunachal\u00a0Pradesh. He informed that the State had undergone\u00a0a\u00a0transformation\u00a0not\u00a0witnessed for decades which has been possible due to the commitments of the double-engine government &#8211; under Prime Minister, Narendra\u00a0Modi and our Chief Minister, Pema Khandu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, \u201cUnder the double&nbsp;engine&nbsp;Sarkar,&nbsp;the&nbsp;state&nbsp;GSDP&nbsp;of&nbsp;Arunachal&nbsp;has&nbsp;almost&nbsp;doubled&nbsp;from&nbsp;Rs.20000&nbsp;Cr&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;year&nbsp;15-16&nbsp;to&nbsp;Rs.38000&nbsp;Cr&nbsp;this&nbsp;year\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further&nbsp;informed&nbsp;the&nbsp;august&nbsp;gathering&nbsp;that,&nbsp;as&nbsp;the&nbsp;country&nbsp;is&nbsp;entering&nbsp;Amrit Kaal the Government of Arunachal Pradesh has adopted a \u2018Vision 2047\u2019 of&nbsp;\u201cHigher&nbsp;Happiness\u201d&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;State&nbsp;aligned&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;national&nbsp;Vision&nbsp;2047.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He also informed that the share of capital expenditure to the total&nbsp;expenditure has averaged over 30% in the last 3 years which is the highest in&nbsp;country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He expressed his thankfulness to the&nbsp;Union&nbsp;Finance&nbsp;Minister&nbsp;for&nbsp;launching&nbsp;Vibrant&nbsp;Villages&nbsp;Programme&nbsp;(VVP) and for launching PM-DevINE&nbsp;(PM\u2019s&nbsp;Development&nbsp;Initiate&nbsp;for&nbsp;NE)&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union&nbsp;Budget&nbsp;this&nbsp;year.&nbsp;He also thanked her for enhancing the&nbsp;borrowing&nbsp;limit&nbsp;for&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;obtaining negotiated loan up to Rs. 657 crores, which he said will greatly help the State&nbsp;Government&nbsp;in&nbsp;providing&nbsp;timely&nbsp;funds&nbsp;for&nbsp;important&nbsp;on-going&nbsp;and&nbsp;new&nbsp;projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; While thanking&nbsp;the&nbsp;Government&nbsp;of&nbsp;India&nbsp;for&nbsp;making&nbsp;provisions&nbsp;for&nbsp;mandatory&nbsp;expenditure of 10% Gross Budgetary Support by non-exempted Ministries in&nbsp;North Eastern States, he made a suggestion to give flexibility&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;States&nbsp;to&nbsp;design&nbsp;customized&nbsp;&nbsp;projects in that particular sector and seek funding from the balance of 10%&nbsp;GBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He also requested to enhance allocations under the schemes of the North-&nbsp;East Council (NEC), Department of North-East Region (DoNER) and Border&nbsp;Area Development Programme (BADP) to at least doubled from the current&nbsp;levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DCM also thanked the Finance&nbsp;Minister&nbsp;for&nbsp;approving&nbsp;a&nbsp;special&nbsp;grant&nbsp;to&nbsp;the State to upgrade infrastructure in 50 identified Government schools under the&nbsp;\u2018Golden&nbsp;Jubilee&nbsp;Model&nbsp;School&nbsp;Programme\u2019 and further&nbsp;requested&nbsp;to&nbsp;provide&nbsp;such&nbsp;special&nbsp;grants on annual basis to compensate for not having multilateral loans,&nbsp;in&nbsp;particular&nbsp;to&nbsp;upgrade&nbsp;and&nbsp;strengthen&nbsp;our&nbsp;health&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;education&nbsp;infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Pre-Budget Meeting was also attended by Union Ministers of State for Finance, Pankaj Chaudhary and Dr Bhagwat Karad, Finance Ministers of the States &amp; UTs, DEA Secretary, Ajay Seth, &nbsp;Secretary (Designate), DoR, Sanjay Malhotra, CEA Dr Anantha Nageswaran and Senior Officials of the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mein was accompanied by Principal Secretary Finance, Dr Sharat Chauhan and Commissioner (Planning &amp; Investment), Prashant Lokhande in the meeting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, November 25: Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein while attending the Pre-Budget Meeting of the Union Budget 2023-24 chaired by the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman extended his sincere gratitude to the Ministry of Finance\u00a0under the guidance of Union Finance Minister for\u00a0prioritizing\u00a0development initiatives\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0frontier\u00a0state\u00a0of\u00a0Arunachal\u00a0Pradesh. 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