Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has requested the legislators to forward their suggestions and ideas for the forthcoming state budget. The legislators should share the list of works to be done in their respective areas and they should share their suggestions and demands, which can be included in the budget, said Manohar Lal. The Chief Minister was addressing the legislators during the discussion programme held on State Finance Management and Budget organized by the Haryana Vidhan Sabha in Panchkula on Monday. Vidhan Sabha Speaker, Gian Chand Gupta, Deputy Speaker, Ranbir Gangwa, Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Kanwar Pal and other Ministers and MLAs attended the programme.
Manohar Lal said that the legislators will get an excellent opportunity to understand the nitty-gritty of the budget. He said that for the last 8 years he got an opportunity to understand all the activities related to the budget. However, since the last 3 years, every time while presenting the budget as the Finance Minister, he also gets a chance to know many untouched aspects of the budget. “Such training programmes will also provide an opportunity for the MLAs to understand the detailed information of the budget. This also helps in preparing the state budget well and will become an ideal budget for other states as well,” said Manohar Lal. He said that before preparing the budget, if there were demands from the members, the State Government would try to include them in the budget.
The Chief Minister said that the budget was being prepared keeping in mind the income and expenditure. It is not possible to make changes in the budget after it is presented before the House. He said that it is often seen that when the budget is presented, the MLAs place demands for development works in their respective areas, but at that time those demands cannot be included in the budget. This time there is a 3-month gap before the budget would be presented. “Therefore in these three months, all the MLAs can send the list of development works to be done in their respective areas to the Finance Department or the Minister concerned or even directly to me, so that these demands could be included. I will try my best to fulfil the demands raised by every MLA,” said Manohar Lal.