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Of this, the department was able to utilize only '19,926.23 crores till January 31, 2023, a parliamentary committee report notes.PTI..
Several parliamentary panels have raised questions and expressed unhappiness in their latest reports over inadequate spending and delayed fund release by Union ministries in 2022-23 while the latter have pointed to the expenditure department's stiff 2021 fund flow parameters for the same...
The parliamentary Committee on Environment, Forests & Climate Change noted that the actual utilisation of the ministry in 2022-23 is '1,707 cr (till January 2022-23) against a RE allocation of '2,478 cr..
The Department of Animal Husbandry informed its associated parliamentary standing committee that "Percentage Expenditure of 98.7% and 98.5% during the year 2020-21 and 2021- 22 was limited to a mere 56.07% (up to the second month of the last quarter) during the year 2022-23 after imposition of financial discipline by the finance ministry"...
"The Department, thus, apprised the Committee that the pace of expenditure was hampered due to opening of SNA and CNA accounts as per the allocation strategy of the Ministry of Finance", says the parliamentary standing committee report...
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