Congress walkout over education Act: Uttarakhand Assembly

In view of Orissa's excessive dependence on central transfers, the volatility of state's own revenue created a big fiscal crisis, Das said.Slamming Orissa government for poor revenue mobilisation, he said annual average growth rate of state's revenue during 2004-05 to 2009-10 was 14.07 per cent while growth rate for Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand stood at 21.83 per cent and 20.83 per cent respectively during the period.Again, the contribution of own revenue receipt for Orissa to the total revenue receipt is less than 50 per cent whereas Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh contribute more than two third over the years, he said.Referring to share of state plan in total plan, the MLA from Jharsuguda said the central plan and central sponsored plan funds together show an increasing share over the years which proves wrong the charge of central negligence.During 2001-02 the share of state plan to total plan was 84.5 per cent which in continued to decline to reach 77.5 per cent in 2010-11, he said.On the other hand, Das and his party colleagues said, the share of central plan and central sponsored plan together was 15.5 per cent and has grown to 22.5 per cent.The Congress leaders further attacked the BJD government saying the utilisation of Central plan and Central sponsored plan funds was very minimal compared to the utilisation of state plans.Stating that the present state of affairs of Orissa was not conducive to development of poor people, they said the distance between the administration as well as ruling party and the common citizens had grown.Such attitude of the government would lead to serious crisis if appropriate steps are not taken to bring about corrective measures, they said.