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The Centre on Wednesday sought Parliamentary nod for additional spend of ₹11,166 crore, including cash spend of ₹10,648 crore.
This was reflected in the first batch of Supplementary Demand for grants for 2017-18 tabled in the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Of the additional spend of ₹11,166 crore, as much as ₹7,000 crore will go to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas toward additional grants-in-aid for payment of differential royalty to State governments.
The Centre also proposes to spend ₹1,800 crore towards budgetary support to the units in the States of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and North-Eastern States including Sikkim under Goods & Services Tax (GST) regime.
The Centre is also looking to spend about ₹387 crore on activities related to Goods and Services Tax.
Of this ₹387 crore, as much as ₹250 crore would be used for effective publicity for GST awareness; ₹99 crore for DG systems for payment of advance user charges of GST Network. Also, an amount of ₹37 crore would be spent for the accounting portal for GST.
The other cash spends include ₹500 crore for providing grants-in-aid general for procurement of pulses under the price stabilisation fund scheme.
BHIM app The Centre also plans to undertake spend of ₹50 crore for promotion of digital payment through BHIM. About ₹50 crore is proposed to be spent toward Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan.
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