IMPHAL, OCT 10 : A high level ministerial team and officials led by Manipur chief minister O. Ibobi Singh Tuesday has left for Delhi to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and to seek special economic package from the Centre. Manipur government would also ask Centre to lift ceiling on various types of expenditures imposed against the state, sources said.
The team will discuss issues related to the state’s finance with the Prime Minister. Source also said that the team will table recommendations of the General Purpose Committee chaired by the Manipur Speaker, Th Lokeshore.
The state government has liabilities of more than Rs 100 crores in the form of contingency bills following restrictions on special encashment last June.
Ever since, all state government departments have been denied blanket permission on withdrawal of bills till date except for withdrawal of salaries and provident funds for the employees, the source disclosed.
The finance department has on last weekend demanded other departments of the state to submit their respective comparison reports on the targeted and achieved revenues during April to September this year.
The state government is targeting Rs 711.35 crores as revenue, Rs 325.51 crores as tax and Rs 385 crores as non-tax revenues, during the current fiscal year 2012-13.
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