Textiles minister Satish Chaturvedi was the first to strongly object to the draft by bringing to the CM notice that several departments were hardly allocated any money.
Secretaries had prepared demands keping ministers in dark, alleges textile minister
MUMBAI: Chief Minister Vilarao Deshmukh faced salvos from his own ministers at the cabinet meeting held today. The meeting witnessed huge uproar when some ministers heading key departments came to know that their departments did not receive any money in supplementary demands worth Rs3,000 crore that the cabinet was supposed to approve in the said meeting.
Textiles minister Satish Chaturvedi was the first to strongly object to the draft by bringing to the CM notice that several departments were hardly allocated any money by the finance minister and his department.
“What is more objectionable is that the proposals of these demands were prepared by the secretaries of the departments and ministers were kept in dark. How can any such proposal be prepared and directly placed before the cabinet without taking ministers into confidence?” Chaturvedi sought to know from the chief minister.
Others too followed suit and demanded that the proposal be scrapped and prepared afresh immediately. Senior ministers from Congress and NCP demanded that cabinet should not approve these demands unless a new draft was prepared in consultation with the ministers of respective departments, a senior minister told DNA.
The cabinet finally decided not to approve the supplementary demands draft that government has to place before the state legislature in its winter session starting from Monday.
This has created a peculiar problem for the government. Unless approved by the cabinet, government cannot place these demands before the legislature.
The demands known as the mini budget cannot be placed before the legislature in haste as huge paperwork in required in preparing and placing demands before both the houses.
Now the stupendous task before the government is to prepare a fresh draft in which finance department will have to make provisions for numerous developmental works of those respective departments and curtail the funds from the allocations made to other departments. Then all these proposals will have to be printed and published in
a book form and get cabinet’s approval and place before both the houses of the legislature.
“And for doing all this, government is left with barely three days. Let’s see how they do it,” said a senior minister.
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