Funds for marginalised groups: Rs 22 crore left unutilised in 2022-23

The year 2022-23 saw a better utilisation - of Rs 3,085 crores provisioned in the budget, Rs 22 crores was left unutilised.

The state government, giving its reasons for the non-utilisation of the budget, submitted that owing to COVID-19 in the year 2021-22, students were not in hostels, ashramshalas, government hostels, or residential schools, and coaching classes too were halted. (Representational Image)

Gujarat indicated at a better utilisation of funds provisioned for the development of SC, ST (Scheduled Tribes), and OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in 2022-23 compared to the previous year, even as Rs 22 crore was left unutilised of the Rs 3,000-odd crore that was allocated in the financial year 2022-23, the state government submitted in response to a question.

In response to the question by Congress MLA Kanti Kharadi on budgetary provision utilisation of the Social Justice and Welfare Department for the amount provisioned for the development of SC, ST, and OBCs, the state submitted that of the Rs 2,470 crore provisioned in the budget in 2021-22, funds worth Rs 30.97 crore were left unutilised.

The year 2022-23 saw a better utilisation – of Rs 3,085 crores provisioned in the budget, Rs 22 crores was left unutilised.

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It also submitted that operations of some hostels have been suspended due to “de-accreditation of hostels” and grant-in-aid hostels and ashramshalas have not seen their operations run in full capacity. Additionally, the budget has also remained unutilised as the state is “receiving less than targeted applications in training schemes”.

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