PC tables supplementary demands for grants

New Delhi, Dec 12 (UNI) Finance Minister P Chidambaram introduced the supplementary demands for grants (General) and demands for excess grants (general) for discussion and voting in the Lok Sabha to meet the additional expenditure of various Government departments, organisations and towards implementation of various schemes.

Initiating the discussions, Mr M A Kharabela Swain (BJP) criticised the Government for its failure in anticipating the needs for the additional funds at the time of presenting the budget for 2006-07 in the month of February.

He said the Government had totally failed to carry out its economic reform policies under pressure from its Left allies.

Mr Swain said it was strange to find the same Left parties which were opposing and criticising the government's Special Economic Zone (SEZ) policies but in their home State West Bengal were giving the best three to four crop agricultural land at Singur to Tatas.

He said the left policy was ''Centre mein dosti and State mein Kushti(Friendship with Centre and fighting with state)''.

He said even during the NDA regime, he was of the view that the fertilizer subsidy should be given in different form as in its present form, the entire benefit was being pocketed by the fertilizer industry and nothing was going to the farmers.

Mr K S Rao (Cong) said the economy was doing well under the UPA regime and this was evident from the fact that farm sector credit had gone up substantially compared to the previous NDA regime.

Mr Suresh Prabhu (SS) also participated in the discussion.

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