Team Herald
PORVORIM: While Chief Minister Pramod Sawant is working on a “realistic” budget for the 2023-24 fiscal, nearly 62 per cent of key promises he announced last year have not materialised.
Sawant is set to present the State Budget 2023-24 on Wednesday.
However, according to the Action Taken Report Action on Announcements made in Budget Speech 2022-23, tabled on the Floor of the House on Tuesday, the Chief Minister has said that only 34 per cent of the total announcements have been fulfilled during the current fiscal.
A total of 170 announcements were made in the last budget of which action has been initiated against 164 assurances while the matter pertaining to six announcements have either been dropped or kept on hold by the government due to various administrative reasons.
“The works/actions in respect of as many as 34 per cent of the total announcements have already been completed. The works/actions in respect of 105 announcements that is around 62 per cent are likely to be completed in the financial year 2023-24,” the ATR stated.
This includes various projects which are in the final stages of completion.
The only project- construction of a new civil and criminal court building at Margao, will be completed in May 2025.
Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao attacked the government for failure to fulfill the promises made in the last budget. He said that the action taken report exposes the very fact that the BJP government under Sawant could not even score passing percentage on its last budget.
“ATR states that only 34 per cent of the total announcements are completed and 62 per cent are likely to be completed in 2023-24. 4 per cent budget announcements are missing,” he tweeted.
Much awaited rules for casino operations in the State under the Goa, Daman & Diu Public Gambling Act, 1976 which will streamline and regulate the operations of casinos in the State are finally vetted by the Law Department and are under consideration of the Finance Department.
