Assam complying with norms of Central fund utilisation: Gogoi

GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that the state government was complying with all standard norms for maintaining transparency in utilisation of Central Fund.

Despite maintaining transparency in utilisation of such fund, Assam has been paying dearly for non-submission of Utilisation Certificates (UCs) to the tune of Rs 11,000 crore of central funds in the last fiscal, the Chief Minister said in a statement here.

"The fact remains that there has always been a mismatch between the UCs submitted by the implementing agencies and the Accountant General's (AG) office due to the dynamic process of continuous flow of funds and ongoing schemes and recognizing this fact, accounting procedure provides for a system of reconciliation," he said.

After the recent reconciliation in March 2015 itself, it had been reconciled with AG for the UCs already submitted earlier for Rs 5042.19 crore, and for the next few months the balance figures would also be reconciled, he said.

"A substantial part of the balance UCs which are yet to be reconciled are related to the state's own funds such as grants-in-aid provided to universities, colleges, medical colleges, development councils/autonomous councils, roads, irrigations, flood control etc," he said.

Further, 12 central schemes were struck off by the central government not only for Assam but also for all 29 states and seven UTs in the country, he said.