Telugu Desam Party slams government for not forming Fiscal Council
The Hindu
Yanamala Ramakrishnudu said there was a gross mismatch between Budgetary allocations and expenditure incurred by the government on various heads.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Politburo member Yanamala Ramakrishnudu demanded that the government should form a State-level ‘Fiscal Council’ to streamline the finances, which were out of control, and also to ensure that the Budget rules were followed scrupulously.
In a statement on Monday, Mr. Ramakrishnudu said there was a gross mismatch between Budgetary allocations and expenditure incurred by the government on various heads.
The government was often going for supplementary grants. As a principle, the supplementary grants should not cross 10% of the target. It was, however, umpteen times.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.