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GRANT No.XXIX FOREST, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGYAND ENVIRONMENT

(Contd.)

Head

Total grant

Actual

Excess(+)

expenditure

Saving (-)

(Rupees in lakh)

MH 090 Secretariat

24.SH(20) Environment, Forest, Science

and Technology Department

O.

4,46.49

R.

(-)1,00.28

3,46.21

3,46.22

(+)0.01

Reduction in provision was the net effect of decrease of

`

1,15.75 lakh and an

increase of

`

15.47 lakh. Specific reasons for the decrease as well as increase in provision

have not been intimated (August 2013)

Similar saving occurred during the year 2011-12.

(iv) The above saving was partly offset by excess under:

3435 Ecology and Environment

03 Environmental Research and

Ecological Regeneration

MH 796 TribalArea Sub Plan

SH(02)

Assistance toAndhra Pradesh

Biodiversity Board

O.

19.80

R.

60.15

79.95

…

Specific reasons for increase in provision have not been intimated.

However, reasons for incurring expenditure over and above the budget provision have

not been intimated (August 2013).

CAPITAL

(i) The expenditure exceeded the grant by

`

38.30 lakh (

`

38,29,958). The excess

requires regularisation.

(ii) In view of final excess of

`

38.30 lakh, surrender of

`

0.75 lakh in March 2013

was not justified.