TS Minority Welfare Department receives less than half its budget

Syed Hurairah Hyderabad:  The COVID – 19 pandemic took a toll on the government’s spending on welfare schemes for minorities. This is abundantly illustrated by the fact that the Minorities Welfare Department (MWD), was able to spend much less than half of a total allocation of about Rs. 1,513 crore.
Figures released by  yourti.in , an online Right to Information portal, shows that the Telangana government had made an allocation of Rs. 1,513.46 crore for the MWD and the several agencies for minorities welfare such as the Urdu Academy, Telangana Minorities Residential Educational Institutions Society and the Telangana State Minorities Finance Corporation. Of this figure, the government released only Rs 658.42 crores so far.
The last time poor expenditure by the MWD was witness was in the FY 2018-19 when it spent only Rs. 1,214.73 crores of a total budgetary allocation of Rs. 1,973 crores.
With a large amount still remaining with the government it would be interesting to find out how much would be spent during the entire financial year.
According to the data furnished by the MWD to an applicant, the scheme expenditure amounted to Rs. 440.70 crores and expenditure incurred for salaries was Rs. 217.66 crores. This is nearly one-third of the total expenditure.