CS Pant keeping a hawk’s eye on revenue targets!

Jaipur: Chief Secretary Sudhansh Pant is very concerned and alert about the state treasury. He is regularly monitoring the progress of the revenue target. The Chief Secretary’s Office, on Sunday, released district-wise figures regarding target achievement till May.

According to this, the target of revenue collection for the whole year of 2024-25 is Rs 71,648 crore. Against this, a total of Rs 9,353 crore has been received by the treasury in the two months of April and May of the current year. This is 13.5 per cent of the total target. According to financial management experts, as per the average of 12 months, the achievement of two months should have been 17 per cent.

According to the figures released by the Programme Monitoring Section of the Chief Secretary, Sanchore district is in first place with 21.28 per cent achievement while Jodhpur with 12.93 per cent is at the bottom. Sanchore collected Rs 46.74 crore in April-May against the target of Rs 219.59 crore while Jodhpur collected Rs 478.52 crore against the annual target of Rs 3,935.73 crore.

Jaipur has collected Rs 2,494.75 against the target of Rs 18,763 crore, Udaipur Rs 573.50 crore against the target of Rs 4,324.73 crore and Bikaner has collected Rs 277.92 crore in two months against the target of Rs 2,038 crore. Jaipur is at 24th rank and Jodhpur is at number 38.

Along with districts, the rank of divisions has also been released by the CS office. In this, Banswara is at the first position with 14.73 per cent recovery and Ajmer is at the bottom at 10th position with 11.73 per cent collection.

It is noteworthy that for the first time in the Bhajan Lal government, the Chief Secretary, Divisional Commissioner and all the District Collectors have been entrusted with the big and important responsibility of achieving the revenue target. For last two months, the chief secretary’s office has been monitoring day to day progress of all the Divisional Commissioners and Collectors. Some Collectors have been given a warning for negligence in this matter. Now, since elections and model code of conduct are over, it is a big challenge for the revenueearning departments to achieve the remaining 87 per cent in next ten months.