Panaji: Cornering Chief Minister Pramod Sawant over “finance mismanagement”, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Girish Chodankar on Monday dared him to disclose revised estimates of revenue receipts and expenditure for the last quarter of January-March 2021.
Taking strong objection to the “self-certified” claim of the Chief Minister of managing state finances prudently, Chodankar said that all the BJP functionaries have mastered the art of “jumlas” to create fake “acche din” (good days).
“The act of the Chief Minister is part of PR management exercise of failed BJP government to project a rosy picture after series of failures. We strongly condemn CM’s self-certification exercise, without third party audit and without providing financial figures. It is nothing but another jumla. I dare Sawant to provide revised estimates of revenue receipts and expenditure for the last quarter of Jan-March 2021 and actual figures,” Chodankar said.
The state Congress president claimed that the borrowings for the year 2020-21 as per RBI are Rs 3,354 crore as compared to Rs 2,600 crore of 2019-20.
“In reality, the actual borrowings of 2020-21 are over Rs 4,200 crore which means it has crossed 5 per cent of GSDP, as GSDP for 2020-21 estimated at Rs 81,502. This is a very bad financial indicator as per RBI norms. The borrowing of Rs 3,354 crore of the BJP government does not include figures of loans taken from NABARD and loans from other banks. The worst part is government has not spent borrowed money on infrastructure but to incur day-to-day revenue expenditures,” Chodankar charged.
He alleged that the government has forced autonomous corporations to cough up their savings of nearly Rs 200 crore, adding that, this amount was not used for the welfare of the people but to run the likes of the government for day-to-day revenue expenditure.
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