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Revised Budget 2016-2017 Highlights REVISED BUDGET 2016-2017 HIGHLIGHTS bfhilmë br§nfhš FoX«gš eh‹F« cilah‹M« ntªj®¡F xë (FwŸ 390) Gifts, grace, right scepter, care of people’s weal These four a light of revered King’s reveal (Kural 390) VVV The State Government has ports, irrigation and drinking formulated Five State Missions and water Eleven Special Focus Areas of ° Industrial investment through Development for achieving through corridor based development multi-disciplinary and multi- and improving ease of doing departmental co-ordination. The business Five State Missions are: ° Education to all with focus on quality ° Mission for water resource ° Health for all management and revival of ° Social security with focus on Kudimaramath women and children ° Mission for housing to achieve ° Strengthening urban hut-free villages and slum-free transportation cities ° Governance and transparency ° Mission for poverty reduction and economic empowerment of poor POVERTY REDUCTION ° Mission for clean Tamil Nadu ° Mission for skill development VVV This Government has launched a State Mission on Poverty VVV The Eleven Special Focus Reduction in both rural and urban Areas of Development are: areas with a multi-pronged ° Agriculture and allied sector approach. development ° Strengthening urban VVV The ‘Tamil Nadu Rural infrastructure Transformation Project’ will be ° Tourism promotion taken up with the World Bank ° Promote Micro, Small and assistance at a cost of Rs.900 crores Medium Enterprises in 120 Blocks. ° Infrastructure development including roads, power, minor VVV The ‘Tamil Nadu State Rural Livelihood Mission’ and the ‘National 2 Rural Livelihood Mission’ will cover Budget Estimates 2016-2017 for all the 385 Blocks in the State this Mission. VVV An amount of Rs.355.81 VVV District Level Private crores for rural poverty reduction Placement Assistance Cells created schemes and Rs.350 crores have in 37 District Employment Offices, been provided for urban livelihood organise job-melas and facilitate programmes have been provided in face-to-face interviews. the Revised Budget Estimates 2016- 2017. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT EMPLOYMENT AND SKILL VVV The profiles of 217 DEVELOPMENT infrastructure projects in six major sectors have been spelt out in the VVV The State Mission on skill Part-II of Vision Tamil Nadu 2023 development will impart skills to 20 document. million persons as stated in the Vision Tamil Nadu 2023 Document. VVV Works for 88 projects have already started and 16 projects VVV Tie-ups of potential employers have reached bidding stage. like industrial units with academic Detailed Project Reports and institutions will be encouraged to Detailed Feasibility Studies have enhance the employability of the been prepared for 24 projects are educated youth and to ensure ready for launch. benchmarking of skill training in alignment with the National Skill VVV In the Revised Budget Qualification framework. Estimates 2016-2017, an amount of Rs.2,000 crores has been allocated VVV During 2016-2017, it is for ‘Tamil Nadu Infrastructure proposed to train two lakh youth for Development Fund’ and Rs.100 skill development under the Tamil crores has been allocated for the Nadu Skill Development Mission. ‘Project Preparation Fund’. VVV A sum of Rs.150 crores has VVV The Tamil Nadu Infrastructure been earmarked in the Revised Fund as an Alternative Investment 3 Fund Category-I (AIF-I) has been VVV Under the Tamil Nadu promoted through the Tamil Nadu Innovation Initiatives (TANII), 115 Infrastructure Fund Management projects have been taken up at an Corporation (TNIFMC), which is now outlay of Rs.250.49 crores to pilot in the process of mobilizing the first innovative ideas. financial close of Rs.3,000 crores. These resources will be used to fund VVV In the Revised Budget new infrastructure projects in the Estimates 2016-2017, Rs.150 crores State during 2016-2017. has been provided for TANII scheme. VVV The State performed better as the Gross State Domestic Product TAMIL DEVELOPMENT (GSDP) growth rate in 2015-2016 is estimated at 8.79% as against the VVV The ‘Amma Literary Award’ for All India Gross Domestic Product eminent women writers, ‘World (GDP) growth rate of 7.57% at Tamil Sangam Award’ for Tamil 2011-2012 constant prices. Scholars across the globe, ‘The Best Translator Award’ for outstanding VVV The State Plan expenditure translators will be given from this target for 2016-2017 set at year onwards. Rs.60,610 crores. VVV A total sum of Rs.32.94 crores VVV For 2016-2017, a sum of is provided for the Tamil Rs.100 crores is allocated for the Development Department in the ‘State Balanced Growth Fund’ Revised Budget Estimates 2016- (SBGF) to reduce socio-economic 2017. imbalances in 105 backward blocks through flexible programmes. ROAD SAFETY VVV The ‘Special Area VVV An amount of Rs.165 crores Development Programme’ will be has been provided for the Road implemented with an allocation of Safety Fund in this Revised Budget Rs.75 crores during 2016-2017. Estimates 2016-2017. 4 VVV Under CRIDP, an amount of VVV Under the ‘Crime and Criminal Rs.150 crores is earmarked for the Tracking Network System’ (CCTNS), Road Safety Component to correct 1,482 Police Stations and 479 black spots in highly accident-prone higher offices throughout the State areas. have been connected. Besides, sanctioning Rs.22.14 crores from LAW AND ORDER State funds for various components including the addition of 938 special VVV A Naxalite Special Duty Wing units in the CCTNS. in 10 border Districts has effectively controlled the activities of Left Wing VVV The Government will take up Extremism. construction of 2,673 houses for Police Personnel at a cost of Rs.422 VVV 500 fishermen youth were crores in the year 2016-2017. appointed as Marine Home Guards in 13 coastal Districts, which is a VVV In the Revised Budget first of its kind initiative in the Estimates 2016-2017, a sum of Country. Rs.6,102.95 crores has been allocated for the Police Department. VVV Buildings will be constructed for the remaining 64 Police Stations, FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES functioning in the private rental buildings. VVV A sum of Rs.230.07 crores has been allocated to this VVV Under the ‘Modernisation of Department in the Revised Budget Police Force’ (MPF), Rs.50.10 crores 2016-2017. has already been sanctioned towards purchase of vehicles, PRISONS equipment for security, communication, surveillance, etc. VVV In the Revised Budget 2016- In the Revised Budget 2016-2017, 2017, a sum of Rs.282.92 crores Rs.68.62 crores has been provided has been allocated for the Prisons for MPF. Department. 5 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE administration and accountability in governance. VVV In the last five years, 223 new courts have been constituted, VVV The process of establishing new buildings at a cost of Rs.486.26 the ‘State Resident Data Hub’ crores have been constructed, and (SRDH) has been almost completed. additional Judges and necessary It will facilitate rolling out of a supporting staff have been biometric-Aadhaar enabled payment sanctioned. system to disburse welfare benefits to citizens. VVV Established Regional Centres of State Judicial Academy at REVENUE ADMINISTRATION Coimbatore and Madurai at a cost of Rs.28.10 crores. VVV The Government under the Hon’ble Chief Minister has created VVV Digitization of court records of 65 new Taluks and 9 new Revenue the High Court of Madras is under Divisions in the past five years. progress at a cost of Rs.9.43 crores. VVV The infrastructure of the VVV A sum of Rs.993.24 crores Revenue Department will be further has been provided in the Revised improved by constructing buildings Budget Estimates 2016-2017 for for 15 Taluk Offices and 5 Revenue Administration of Justice. Divisional Offices and a new building for Assistant Director, Survey GOVERNANCE Department at Kancheepuram at a total cost of Rs.51.57 crores. VVV The e-Sevai Centres are offering more than 100 public VVV The online patta transfer services at present and the number system, originally piloted in select of services will be scaled up to 300 Taluks, is now ready to be launched during this year. throughout the State. VVV The proposed constitution of VVV During the year 2016-2017, Lokayukta will make a significant 3.50 lakh house site pattas will be impact in ensuring clean given. The Government will adopt 6 an innovative approach, promote will be followed in 27.50 lakh acres multi-storied buildings and issue and the Sustainable Sugarcane joint pattas to the houseless Initiative (SSI) will be adopted in families in areas, where land is 43,688 acres. Precision farming will scarce and costly. The Rural be promoted in the cultivation of Development Department will cotton and vegetables. construct houses in such patta lands by adopting flexible housing VVV A new scheme will be designs. launched for dry land farming, focusing on improving the VVV In the last five years, under production and productivity of the ‘Chief Minister’s Uzhavar millets, pulses and oilseeds. Padhukappu Thittam’, a sum of Rs.3,039 crores was disbursed to VVV Water conservation measures 37.67 lakh beneficiaries as will be taken up as an integral part assistance under various schemes. of this scheme. Mixed farming will For this scheme, an amount of be promoted in dry land areas by Rs.206 crores has been allocated in supporting mini-dairy and poultry the Revised Budget 2016-2017 units to supplement farm income. VVV A sum of Rs.5,686 crores has VVV A special self-sufficiency Pulse been allocated for the Revenue Production Programme will be Department in the Revised Budget launched this year to bring 27.50 2016-2017. lakh acres of land under pulses during 2016-2017, aiming for an AGRICULTURE AND CO- overall production of 9.80 lakh OPERATION metric tonnes.
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