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BUDGET 2015-16 AT A GLANCE
(In Crore Rupees)
Item Budget Estimates
2014-15
Revised Estimates
2014-15
Budget Estimates
2015-16
1 2 3 4
Opening Balance *4589.68 *4589.68 4693.53
1. Consolidated Fund
(I) Receipts
(a) Revenue Receipts 226418.77 223997.46 249880.23
(b) Capital Receipts (i) Receipts from loans
(ii) Recovery of Loans and Advances
#43662.94
490.96
#34163.54
540.68
#46579.62
263.40
Total- (b)- Capital Receipts 44153.90 34704.22 46843.02
total-1- Receipts 270572.67 258701.68 296723.25
(II) Expenditure
(a) Revenue Expenditure 197424.88 191590.23 215756.18
(b) Capital Expenditure
(i) Capital Outlay (ii) Repayment of Loans
(iii) Loans and Advances
55986.16 #19383.88
1909.67
59094.55 #10383.88
2234.17
63154.26 #20983.89
2792.99
Total- (b)- Capital Expenditure 77279.71 71712.60 86931.14
Total-2- Expenditure 274704.59 263302.83 302687.32
Deficit (-)/Surplus (+) of Consolidated
fund
(-)4131.92 (-)4601.15 (-)5964.07
2. Contingency Fund (net) 0.00 (-)125.00 0.00
3. Public Account (net) 4570.00 4830.00 6055.00
Net Result of All Transactions 438.08 103.85 90.93
Closing Balance 5027.76 4693.53 4784.46
*As per the state's account in RBI. #This includes Rs. 10,000.00 crore of Ways and Means Advance by RBI for
2014-15, Rs. 1,000.00 crore as per revised estimate for 2014-15 and Rs. 10,000.00 crore for 2015-16.
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Salient Feature of the Budget 2015-16
The size of budget for the year 2015-16 is of Rs. 302687.32
crore, which is 10.2 percent higher than the year 2014-15.
Adequate arrangement of resources has been made for
financing the budget of this size, which includes an increase
of about 13.5 percent in the state's own tax revenue as
compared to the year 2014-15.
The budget includes new schemes of Rs. 9388.79 crore.
The development agenda for year 2015-16 has three main
points. One, participatory development to improve the
infrastructure facilities to increase growth rate of the state
on one hand, while on the other to ensure that its benefits
were delivered to farmers, poor, labourers, women,
minorities etc. Second, use of latest techniques in the
effective implementation of programmes and schemes.
Third, effective and transparent administration.
For the all round development and welfare of the farmers, it
is necessary to emphasise the need of businesses related
with farmers. So, the government has expressed its
commitment to take year 2015-16 as „Kisan Varsh‟.
Agriculture and Farmer
The growth rate of the state has been assessed at five per
cent on the basis of the estimates of year 2013-14, which is
better than the country‟s growth rate of 4.7 per cent.
Decision taken to declare year 2015-16 as „Kisan Varsh‟ to
ensure their prosperity.
To make youths having agricultural education self sufficient
and for the welfare of the farmers, a new scheme is being
launched. Under it, these youths would set up „one stop
shops‟, which will be known as „agri junction‟. The
government would provide a subsidy of five per cent on the
interest of the loan provided for the purpose by the bank.
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About 1000 agri junction will be set up during the fiscal
2015-16.
Rs. 50 crore have been arranged to encourage the use of
hybrid seeds and Rs. 81 crore arranged for the subsidy on
certified seeds to ensure better productivity.
Rs. 100 crore arranged for the storage of chemical
fertilizers.
The farmers are being provided free irrigation facilities. For
that, an amount of Rs. 200 crore arranged.
The private tubewells of the farmers will be energised
immediately after receiving the request during the year
2015-16.
About Rs. 7000 crore scheme being prepared for feeder
separation to ensure 16 hour power supply in rural areas
and 8 hour supply in agricultural sector.
An arrangement of Rs. 100 crore made in the budget to
implement Lohia Gramin Parivahan Sewa to provide cheap
transport service in the rural areas.
A target of 626.64 lakh M.T. of foodgrain production and
13.03 lakh M.T. of oilseeds production set for the year
2015-16 for the development of agriculture sector.
About Rs. 3.55 crore arranged to provide grant subsidy to
encourage oilseed production.
A seed distribution target of 63.10 lakh quintals set for the
year 2015-16. Out of it, target of distribution of 11 lakh
quintals of seeds for the kharif and 52.10 lakh quintals of
seeds for rabi set.
A budget of Rs. 778 crore arranged under National
Agriculture Development Scheme for the year 2015-16.
Rs. 600 crore arranged under the farmer accident insurance
scheme.
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Rs. 180 crore arranged under National Crop Insurance
Programme.
Rs. 150 crore arranged to provide crop loans on lesser
interest rates to the farmers. Rs. 114 crore arranged for
Bhoomi Sena Yojna.
New agricultural degree colleges being set up at Azamgarh
and Lakhimpur Kheri districts besides, the development of
infrastructure facilities in agricultural universities. Besides,
two new hostels are being set up at Agriculture University,
Kanpur. An amount of Rs. 96 crore arranged for the fiscal
2015-16 for the purpose.
Rs. 1152 crore arranged by sugar mills to pay dues of sugar
farmers. Rs. 442 crore arranged to reimburse society
commission of the cane societies.
Rs. 250 crore budget arranged for the setting up of new
sugar mill of 3500 TCD capacity, co-generation and distillery
plant in place of Cooperative Sugar Mill, Sathiyaon.
A target of reclamation of 1.30 lakh hectares of sodic land
set.
Rs. 168 crore budget arranged for land reclamation and
related activities for sodic land.
A reclamation target of 15000 hectare of sodic land set.
Income of about 45000 farmers would increase from it.
Rs. 1029 crore arranged for 16 non-licencee district
cooperative banks for the year 2015-16 by the government.
Rs. 50 crore arranged for the Kamdhenu scheme.
About Rs. 3 crore arranged for automatic milk collection
unit.
Animal Husbandry
A target of setting up of 10 units of broiler parent farming
and 90 units of commercial layers farmings has been set up
under the Poultry Development Policy 2013 of the state
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government for the fiscal 2015-16. It would help in
producing 302 crore eggs and 191700 quintals of meat
every year in the state.
National Livestock Insurance Scheme proposed for the year
2015-16.
Fisheries
About 200 hectares of land covered by water, which is
useless for agriculture, would be developed into ponds and
used for fish breeding.
Members/active fishermen of 2 lakh societies will be covered
under fishermen accident insurance scheme to provide social
security to the fishing community and fishermen. This
scheme will be based on free of cost premium.
A budget of Rs. 21 crore arranged for the construction of
750 fishermen houses like Lohia Awas.
Rural Development
A budget of Rs. 2617 crore arranged for the construction
and upgrading of roads under Pradhanmantri Gram Sadak
Yojna.
An arrangement of Rs. 106 crore for the construction/
reconstruction of inter rural roads under cane development
department.
Budgetary provision of Rs. 550 crore for the arrangement of
CC roads, KC drains and inter-locking tiles in 2100 revenue
villages under Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Samagra Gram Vikas
Yojna.
Budgetary provision of Rs. 1000 crore Lohia Gramin Awas
Yojna. This scheme will be implemented with an amount of
Rs. 1500 crore loan from HUDCO through Uttar Pradesh
Gramin Awas Parishad.
Proposal for about Rs. 3033 crore for the financial year of
2015-16 for Indira Awas Yojna.
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Budgetary provision of about Rs. 1900 crore for National
Rural Drinking Water Programme.
Budgetary provision of Rs. 1533 crore in financial year of
2015-16 under “Swachchh Bharat Mission Yojna”.
An arrangement of Rs. 16 crore for the construction of
toilets and bathrooms on the basis of pilot project in rural
areas.
Proposal for budgetary provision of Rs. 773 crore in the
budget of 2015-16 to fill the critical gaps for the
development works in 35 districts of the state under
backward area subsidy fund programme.
Proposal for budgetary provision of Rs. 756 crore for
assembly area development fund (Vidhayak Nidhi).
Proposal for arrangement of Rs. 100 crore for the
development of cremation grounds in rural areas of the
state.
For Women
Mahila Samman Kosh has been constituted to prevent
harassment of women and their empowerment. Budgetary
provision of Rs. 100 crore for this fund.
Women Power Line-1090 started for the first time in the
state. Decision to start women help line in every district has
been taken.
An arrangement of Rs. 11 crore for establishing “Asha Jyoti
Kendra” in 11 districts with a view to providing health relief
to women of economically weaker sections.
An arrangement of Rs. 300 crore for Kanya Vidyadhan
Yojna.
Budgetary provision of Rs. 637 crore for subsidy scheme for
destitute widow women and education of their children.
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An arrangement of Rs. 244 crore for the construction of
hostels for the security and facility of girls studying in
schools.
Modernisation Schemes
An arrangement of Rs. 500 crore for laying underground
electricity distribution lines in cities.
An amount of Rs. 20 crore proposed for e-District projects.
Digitisation of land-maps and revenue record rooms of
collectorate and tehsils to be made.
Budgetary provision of Rs. 65 crore for digitisation of files of
Allahabad High Court and its Lucknow Bench.
Decision to start “Samvedan Bima Helpline” with view to
providing information regarding different insurance
schemes.
An amount of Rs. 300 crore has been earmarked to
strengthen dial-100 system to inform police through phone
regarding criminal incidents. After the implementation of
this scheme police will be informed about criminal incidents
by dialling 100 from anywhere in the state.
An amount of Rs. 73 crore for installing jammers in jails.
Keeping in view the importance and popularity of toll-free
number-108 ambulance Samajwadi Swasthya Seva, an
amount of Rs. 168 crore earmarked in this budget under
emergency medical transport services.
Budgetary provision of Rs. 42 crore for the purchase of 500
additional ambulances.
Electricity
A target has been fixed to ensure the power supply of
minimum 16 hours in rural areas and 22 to 24 hours in
urban areas from October 2016.
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A target for increasing the availability of electricity to 21000
MW from about 10000 MW at present has been fixed for
additional power supply in rural and urban areas.
About 550 new 33/11 KV power sub-stations have to be
built for strengthening the power distribution, besides the
construction of 33 KV, 11 KV sub-stations and LT lines. An
amount of Rs. 6000 crore proposed for this work.
A target to complete electrification works in 01 lakh villages
and Majras in the year of 2015-16 under rural electrification
scheme.
An arrangement of Rs. 14,504 crore for the projects of
energy sector and Rs. 11,260 crore for maintenance works.
In this way, a total of Rs. 25,764 crore has been earmarked
in the budget.
Public Works
An arrangement of Rs. 12,181 crore for the construction of
roads and bridges and special schemes for Purvanchal and
Bundelkhand.
Budget provision of Rs. 3005 crore for the maintenance of
districts and other roads.
An arrangement of Rs. 370 crore under RIDF scheme for the
broadening/strengthening of main roads in rural areas/other
district roads.
Budgetary provision of Rs. 1000 crore to link district head
quarters with four lanes.
Proposal for completion of construction of 80 long bridges
and 20-railway over bridges.
An arrangement of Rs. 712 crore for the strengthening and
widening of important roads of the state after identifying a
core road network.
An arrangement of Rs. 675 crore for widening/strengthening
of such state highways which are still single/1.5 lane.
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Budgetary arrangement of Rs. 2358 crore for widening and
strengthening of state highways, main district roads and
other district roads having more traffic density.
An arrangement of Rs. 370 crore for the roads being
constructed in 7 district of Uttar Pradesh on Indo-Nepal
border.
An arrangement of Rs. 253 crore for the special projects
under special area programme and 72 crore for special
schemes of Bundelkhand.
Irrigation
Keeping in view the pressure of increasing traffic and
problem of congestion an arrangement of Rs. 100 crore
made for the construction of 6-lane road project from
Faizabad road to Gosaiganj-Mohanlal ganj road on Sharda
Sahayak Feeder Canal.
A target of water to tail end of 9682 canals has been fixed
against 9772 tails projected for Kharif crop 1422, out of
which water reached to 9364 tails. A target of water to the
10,040 tails has been fixed against the projected number of
10,183 tails in Rabi 1422, which is the maximum so far.
An arrangement of Rs. 310 crore for Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia
tube well scheme.
Minor Irrigation
An arrangement of Rs. 36 crore for free of cost boring
scheme.
An arrangement of Rs. 76 crore for mid deep tube well
scheme.
An arrangement of Rs. 13 crore for deep boring scheme.
Urban Development
An arrangement of Rs. 300 crore for the construction of
alleviated approach road and fly-over in sangam area of
Allahabad.
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Budgetary provision of Rs. 550 crore for Naya Savera Nagar
Vikas Yojna.
An arrangement of Rs. 100 crore for the development of
cremation grounds in urban areas.
Budgetary provision of Rs. 800 crore under JNNURMM
scheme of infrastructure development in urban areas.
An arrangement of Rs. 600 crore for the project of Agra
drinking water supply project.
An arrangement of Rs. 150 crore under Adarsh Nagar Yojna,
Rs. 249 crore for urban sewerage and water drainage,
Rs. 354 crore for urban drinking water programme and
Rs. 100 crore for urban road improvement schemes.
An arrangement of Rs. 310 crore for construction of CC
roads, interlocking tiles and drains in slums and minority
dominated slums of urban areas of the state.
Housing and Urban planning
Budgetary provision of Rs. 600 crore for development area
of the all development authorities and infrastructure facilities
in urban areas of the state.
Provision of Rs. 200 crore for setting up of Jai Prakash
Narayan International Centre.
Development/construction work of 3578 plots/buildings has
been completed till December 2014 under “Sabke Liye Awas
Yojna”. Development/construction work of 20,868 plots/
buildings is in progress.
Environment Conservation
An arrangement of Rs. 126 crore for the distribution of 6000
solar photovoltaic pumps on subsidy to small and marginal
farmers to save diesel/electricity for irrigation in the state.
Proposal for Rs. 50 crore for the modernisation of slaughter
houses.
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Proposal for construction of about Rs. 7000 crore projects in
26 cities on the banks of Ganga River by the year of 2020 in
phased manner. An arrangement of Rs. 359 crore for the
works to be done by National Ganga River Basin Authority.
An arrangement of Rs. 75 crore for river pollution control
programme and Rs. 50 crore lake conservation scheme.
An arrangement of Rs. 200 crore for the scheme of making
21 cities of the state slum-free under “Rajiv Awas Yojna”.
An arrangement of Rs. 38 crore for setting up of solar street
lights at public places in rural areas.
An arrangement of about Rs. 66 crore for 20 MW grid
connected solar power project in Bundelkhand.
An arrangement of Rs. 34 crore for providing solar power
pack for light, fan and other domestic equipments for poor in
rural areas.
The cost of toilet construction has been increased from
Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 12,000 in rural areas under “Swachchh
Bharat Mission Yojna”. Budgetary provision of Rs. 1533 crore
made for the scheme.
An arrangement of Rs. 300 crore for the scheme of providing
battery operated rickshaws to rickshaw-pullers in urban
areas.
A budgetary provision of Rs. 400 crore for channelisation of
Gomti River by cleaning the river and better environment in
near-by areas.
An arrangement of Rs. 100 crore for the implementation of
solid waste management scheme on PPP mode.
With a view to encourage the use of cycle for movement in
cities, cycle tracks are being constructed in Agra and
Lucknow after which these tracks will be constructed in
other cities also.
An arrangement of Rs. 50 crore for clean school green
school scheme for government boys/girls inter colleges.
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World-Level Infrastructure
Provision of Rs. 425 crore for Lucknow metro rail project.
Besides, decision to run metro in Agra, Kanpur, Varanasi
and Meerut also.
Implementation of 11 km. long metro rail expansion project
worth Rs. 1838 crore in Ghaziabad city.
Rs. 3000 crore arranged for the construction of Lucknow to
Agra Expressway (Green field).
A cricket stadium with a capacity of 50,000 spectators is
under construction at Lucknow at a cost of Rs. 360 crore.
A world level 8-cycle track velodrome and a cycling academy
would be set up in Lucknow to provide training in cycling
and for international competitions at a cost of Rs. 168 crore.
Rs. 33 crore to be spent on the modernisation of Green Park
stadium at Kanpur.
Foundation of a high level Rs. 854 crore cancer institute has
already been laid in Lucknow. For that, 100 acres of land at
Chak Ganjaria Farm and a budget of Rs. 111 crore has been
arranged.
Besides, decision has been taken to set up another cancer
institute at Kannauj.
Rs. 100 crore earmarked for the construction of new annexe
building of secretariat.
Rs. 10 crore arranged for renovation of Vidhan Bhawan.
A 6-lane elevated national highway will be constructed in
Ghaziabad, which would ease traffic between Delhi and
Meerut. It will be the longest elevated national highway of
the country.
Other Schemes and Programmes
Water management, irrigation facilities and drinking water
works are being carried out in the form of package on the
basis of sectoral approach in Jhansi, Lalitpur, Jaluan,
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Mahoba, Hamirpur, Banda and Chirtrakoot districts under
Bundelkhand package. Horticulture development, dairy
development, animal husbandry and agricultural marketing
programmes have also been included to increase the income
of the farmers. A budget of Rs. 800 crore has been arranged
for the purpose.
Rs. 1000 crore arranged for rapid economic development
scheme.
Rs. 235 crore earmarked for the construction of residential
and non-residential buildings at division/district/tehsil levels.
Rs. 289 crore arranged for the development of facilities of
sports infrastructure.
Social Security
A budget of Rs. 2727 crore arranged to benefit 45 lakh
beneficiaries under Samajwadi Pension Yojna by extending
its cover.
Rs. 1613 crore arranged for old age/kisan pension scheme.
About 43 lakh beneficiaries to be benefitted by the scheme.
Decision taken to increase the pension of Misa/DIR/political
prisoners from Rs. 6000 to 10,000 per month.
Decision also taken to increase the pension of the freedom
fighters/their dependents from Rs. 8811 to Rs. 12,000 per
month.
The aid amount under national family benefit scheme
increased from Rs. 20,000 to 30,000. An amount of
Rs. 420 crore arranged for the purpose.
An amount of Rs. 2776 crore arranged for minority welfare
schemes.
An amount of Rs. 324 crore proposed to provide pension to
disabled persons under disabled pension scheme.
An amount of Rs. 60 crore arranged for the construction of
remaining works of Shakuntala Mishra Punarvas
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Vishwavidyalaya and Rs. 27 crore earmarked for the
integrated education of disabled children.
Rs. 300 crore budget arranged for „Aasra yojna‟. About
8,000 families to be benefitted by it.
Rs. 200 crore arranged for the development of
cemetery/cremation grounds of minority community.
Rs. 44 crore arranged for invertors run by solar energy for
power loom weavers of Varanasi.
Education
Rs. 2100 crore earmarked for the reimbursement of
scholarship and fees of SC students.
Rs. 723 crore arranged for the reimbursement of scholarship
and fees of general students.
Rs. 1092 crore arranged for the reimbursement of
scholarship and fees of backward class students.
Rs. 977 crore arranged for the reimbursement of scholarship
and fees of minority students.
Rs. 285 crore arranged under the modernisation scheme for
Madarsa/Maqtab.
Rs. 42 crore arranged to take 146 new Alia level permanent
recognised Madarsas on grant-in-aid list.
Rs. 200 crore arranged for the development of infrastructure
facilities in senior primary schools run by UP Basic Education
Board.
Rs. 100 crore arranged for the distribution of laptops to
meritorious students.
Basic Education
About Rs. 9977 crore proposed for Education for All
Programme.
About Rs. 1696 crore annual action plan for mid-day-meal
scheme proposed.
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Construction of 7000 additional class rooms and boundary
walls of 20,000 schools proposed.
Secondary Education
Rs. 1463 crore arranged for UP National Secondary
Education Campaign.
Rs. 350 crore to be spent on the setting up of 100 model
schools.
Rs. 200 crore to be spent on construction and maintenance
of hostels in Kastoorba Gandhi schools.
Rs. 50 crore arranged for the completion of pending works in
government higher secondary schools and Rs. 60 crore
earmarked for infrastructure facilities.
Higher Education
Target to start teaching work at the earliest by completing
unfinished construction works on 13 government degree
colleges. On completion there will be about 50 government
degree colleges in the state. A budgetary provision of
Rs. 7 crore made for this purpose.
For providing basic facilities, Rs. 134 crore is proposed for
state universities and 78 crore for government degree
colleges.
A provision of Rs. 5 crore made for restoration work of the
Sampurnanand Sanskrit University.
Technical Education
New degree colleges, one each in Devipatan and Basti
divisions, will be opened under the National Higher
Education Campaign.
Setting up of a skill development and design institute is
proposed at Unnao for providing better opportunities of
employment to the students in the state by honing their
skill.
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New polytechnics will be setup at Karnailganj tehsil of Gonda
district and Milkipur tehsil of Faizabad district.
Construction work starts on IIIT on PPP mode at Chak
Ganjaria in Lucknow district for promoting private
investment.
Vocational Education & Skill Development
20 new government industrial training institutes will be
setup in unserved tehsils/development blocks to increase
the opportunities of training.
Solar energy plants will be setup in 40 government industrial
training institutes in remote areas of the state to ensure
uninterrupted power supply to them.
Investment Atmosphere & Industrial Development
The process for setting up of industrial units in the state has
been simplified and "Nivesh Mitra Yojana" and "Industrial
Grievances Redressal System" have been introduced.
The government has constituted NRI department for solving
the problems of original NRIs of the state. The NRIs will be
given information through a new website about the steps
being taken for development of the state to encourage them
for capital investment in the state.
Dadri-Noida-Ghaziabad Investment area and Meerut/
Muzaffarnagar Industrial Area have been identified in Uttar
Pradesh under the 1483 Km long Delhi-Mumbai Industrial
Corridor.
Plan to develop a new township as a smart city in an area of
over 2100 acres under the new Green Field Integrated
Township being developed in Kanpur (Trans Ganga Project).
Under the new Green Field Integrated Township being
developed at Naini (Allahabad), a state university in an area
of 40 acres and an IT Park in an area of 10 acres will be
developed.
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A provision of about Rs. 26 crore is proposed under the
Chief Minister Gramodyog Rozgar scheme, under which 3000
village industrial units will be setup and employment for
about 60000 will be generated.
A provision of Rs. 150 crore has been made for ensuring
power supply at the subsidised rates to powerloom weavers
also as is admissible to the farmers.
A provision of Rs. 30 crore to provide assistance as per the
Textile Industry Policy-2014 to the entrepreneurs engaged in
textile and spinning sector.
It is proposed to setup electronics manufacturing clusters
(EMC), one each under the Yamuna Express-Way and
Greater Noida Industrial Development Authorities.
A provision of Rs. 50 crore has been made for Carpet Bazaar
at Bhadohi.
Law & Order
Initiative has been taken for setting up a Hi-Tech control
rooms to increase efficiency of Police force.
Ultra-modern control rooms have started functioning in
Kanpur Nagar and Lucknow. Testing work is in progress for
setting up of control rooms in Ghaziabad and Allahabad
districts.
Decision has been taken to setup ultra-modern police control
rooms in Varanasi and Agra districts.
A provision of Rs. 50 crore for introducing city surveillance
system in the state.
Toll- free traffic help line number 1073 has been setup for
giving information about road accidents in all the districts of
the state.
A provision of Rs. 50 crore has been made for integrated
traffic management system under the traffic arrangements
in major cities of the state.
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Adequate resources have been ensured for construction of
about 4290 houses for police personnel.
Medical Education
Target to start outdoor patient services in the Medical
College, Banda also.
A provision of Rs. 5 crore has been made for setting up of a
medical college in Chandauli district.
Medical & Health
A provision of about Rs. 587 crore for medicines during
2015-16.
A provision of Rs. 225 crore for purchase of equipments
under the scheme of providing specific medical facilities in
urban areas.
An amount of Rs. 394 crore is proposed for different
construction works.
Provision of Rs. 50 crore for setting up of 100- bed hospitals
in different districts.
An amount of Rs. 25 crore is proposed for setting up of
300-bed joint hospitals in Bareilly, Moradabad and Devipatan
divisional headquarters.
Provision of Rs. 10 crore for expansion of the Dr. Shyama
Prasad Mukherjee Civil Hospital in Lucknow.
An amount of Rs. 194 crore is proposed for construction of
buildings of primary health centres and community health
centres.
Provision of Rs. 15 crore for construction of independent
power feeders for 46 government hospitals.
Rs. 5840 crore is proposed for family welfare programme.
Tourism
Decision to ensure effective development of "Maitraiya
Project".
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Creation and up-gradation of basic tourism infrastructural
facilities in 02 important tourism sectors namely Agra-Brij
Corridor and Buddhist circuit of the state under the World
Bank aided Pro-Poor Tourism Development Project.
It is proposed to link Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi and Agra
with air services under the first phase of the scheme for
linking major places of the state with air services.
Law & Justice
A provision of Rs. 200 crore for new buildings of Lucknow
Bench of Allahabad High Court being constructed at Gomti
Nagar in Lucknow.
A budgetary provision of Rs. 100 crore for construction of
residential buildings for judicial officers.
A provision of Rs. 300 crore is proposed for construction of
non-residential buildings of district courts.
For Advocates
An amount of Rs. 40 crore is proposed for welfare of
advocates.
A budgetary provision of Rs. 5 crore for providing financial
assistance to young advocates.
Fiscal Services
A total receipt of Rs. 52,673 crore by way of commercial tax
is estimated in 2015-16, which is 10.9 percent higher than
the year 2014-15.
A total receipt of Rs. 17,500 crore by way of excise duty is
estimated in 2015-16, which is 20.7 percent higher than the
year 2014-15.
A total receipt of Rs. 14836 crore is estimated by way of
stamp and registration fee, which is 16.6 percent higher
than the year 2014-15.
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A revenue receipt of Rs. 4,658 crore by way of motor vehicle
tax is estimated in 2015-16, which is 17.9 percent higher
than the year 2014-15.
Fiscal Scenario
The state government is ensuring compliance of the financial
liabilities and budget management act. The state is
consistently maintaining revenue surplus. It is estimated
that the fiscal deficit would be 2.96 percent of the gross
state domestic product. The borrowings of the state are
estimated as 27.5 percent of the gross state domestic
product. It is proposed that the state government will take
loan within the limit fixed for borrowings. This is the reason
why the state has remained consistently successful in
maintaining the fiscal stability.
Receipts
Total receipts of Rs. 296723.25 crore are estimated in the
year 2015-16.
Total receipts include Rs. 249880.23 crore by way of
revenue receipts and Rs. 46843.02 crore by way of capital
receipts.
Revenue receipts include Rs. 178644.11 crore as share of
the tax revenue, in which Rs. 86729.11 crore is included as
the state's share in central taxes.
Expenditure
A total expenditure of Rs. 302687.23 crore is estimated.
Total expenditure includes Rs. 215756.18 crore by way of
revenue expenditure and Rs. 86931.14 crore by way of
capital expenditure.
A provision of Rs. 106720.42 crore has been made to meet
the plan expenditure.
Revenue Surplus
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A revenue surplus of Rs. 34124.05 crore is estimated in
2015-16.
Fiscal Deficit
A fiscal deficit of Rs. 31559.80 crore is estimated in 2015-
16, which is 2.96 percent of the gross state domestic
product.
Consolidated Fund
After deducting total expenditure from the receipts of
consolidated funds, a deficit of Rs. 5964.07 crore is
estimated.
Public Account
Net receipts of Rs. 6055 crore is estimated from public
account.
Net Result of All Transaction
Net result of Rs. 90.93 crore from all transaction is
estimated in 2015-16.
Closing Balance
The closing balance for the year 2015-16 is estimated
around 4784.46 crores in which opening balance of 4693.53
crore has been taken into account.
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