(FE)
The Narendra Modi government on Monday sought the Parliament approval for additional expenditure of Rs 66,113 crore, which includes 76 Grants and 3 Appropriations. The funds would be used to rollout schemes to provide electricity connections to poor and payment of urea subsidies. Finance Minister Arun Jaitleyon Monday moved the second batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants for 2017-18 in Lok Sabha.
Major spending heads include Rs 1,033.8 crore towards grants for the creation of capital assets, subsidies and other charges for Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya). Another Rs 3,594.57 crore was provided to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA). As much as Rs 20,532.5 crore was provided for urea freight subsidy, while another Rs 15,908 crore was provided for national highways.
