SOIL Report 2011 - ACCESS Development Services

64 State of India’s Livelihoods Report 2011Table 3.5: Budget promises over the years on the same or similar issuesSubjectHealthEducationEducationEmploymentSocial securityFood securityPromises inCongressmanifesto 2009Health insurancefor BPLfamiliesTwo modelschools in eachblockFree educationaccess acrossstages for dalitsand adivasis100 days for workat `100 per daySocial securityfor high-riskgroupsPromisesaddressed inBudget 2009–10RSBY allocation`350 croreScheme formodel schoollaunched with`350 croreNot addressedBudget allocationincreased butwages becamefixedHigh-risk groupsidentified andaction initiatedNational Food No allocationSecurityAct anduniversalizationof ICDSSource: CBGA Report (2011, pp. 9–10).Promisesaddressed inBudget 2010–11RSBY for NREGAworkersAllocationincreased to`425 crorePost-matricscholarshiprates to berevised forSC/ST/OBCsDebates on wagescontinuesNational SocialSecurityFund calledSwavalambaninitiated with`1,000 croreFood Subsidyreduced by`1,000 crore,and allocationto ICDSincreased by`2,000 crorePromisesaddressed inBudget 2011–12Scope of RSBYexpandedThis is integratedwith SSAA pre-matricscholarshipstarted forSC/ST/OBCsMGNREGA wagepegged withCPIALEligibility ofIGNOAPSreduced to 60years; peopleaged morethan 80 to getmore pensionFood SecurityBill to beintroduced,budget forICDSCommentsScheme in place;implementationstartedAllocation far shortof budgetaryneedIssue not addressedBudget issueaddressedScheme in place;implementationjust startedNFSA yet to start,universalizationis far short ofbudgetary needsector, like education, health, water sanitation,rural development and so on, and thefundamental message is captured here. Forexample, the budgetary outlay for the centreand states together has remained moreor less constant for education at 3.5 percent of GDP, on an average, from 2000–01to 2009. Similarly, health outlay too hasremained constant at around 0.9 per cent ofGDP from 2002 to 2009. Water sanitationhas remained more or less constant at 0.80per cent of GDP for the last seven years. Incontrast, the rural economy and agriculturehas seen a significant increase in the budgetallocation from 1.5 to 2.5 per cent of GDP,and from 1.1 to 2.0 per cent of GDP respectively.Another contrast is the continuousdecline in food subsidy from 0.82 per cent to0.66 per cent of GDP in the last six years.3.2.3. Allocation and fund utilization:A case study of OrissaThe Union Government allocates funds, butit is mostly up to the state governments todecide how to utilize them. Therefore, theefficiency, equity and quality of spendingby the state governments greatly affect andimpact the states’ welfare. Since the monitoringis still mostly limited to spending, itis worthwhile to look at the state of affairsin this regard (see Table 3.6).We will present a case study of funds utilizationby one of the poorest states, namelyOrissa. For the past 10 years, the state hasbeen unable to fully spend the funds receivedfrom the GOI under the CentrallySponsored Plan (CSP).In the last financial year (2010–11),the state government received an as-