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Produce white paper on use of discretionary fund: Modi to Centre

Accusing the Centre of allocating huge amounts of money to certain states out of its discretionary fund, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today questioned the norms adopted for such allocations

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Accusing the Centre of allocating huge amounts of money to certain states out of its discretionary fund, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today questioned the norms adopted for such allocations and demanded that the list of beneficiary states be made public.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the 56th meeting of the National Development Council (NDC) here, Modi also raised questions on the slow growth rate achieved by the country in view of the global trend and said, "the slowdown is all because of the faulty policies of the Government."

"Government has a dicretionary fund in lakhs and crores. They give package from this fund to whichever state they wish to. Therefore, a white paper should be presented about the norms for utilisation of these funds. We want to know how much fund has been given to whom and what happened to the fund already given and where are the other funds," he said.

If development has to be taken forward, then a thought should be given to this aspect too, he said.

Taking a dig at the Prime Minister for attributing slow growth in the country to global factors, Modi said, "I want to know, did growth slow down in Gujarat. We achieved the target as set by the Planning Commission."

Criticising the Prime Minister's speech at the NDC, Modi said, "It is unfortunate that there is no word about inflation. I want to know the reason why he is so insensitive about inflation."

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