Lok Sabha Question No. 3531 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-16
Subject: Proper Utilisation of Cess
Ministry: FINANCE
Asked by: B.V. NAYAK

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(SHRI P RADHAKRISHNAN)

(a)&(b) The details  of revenue  collected in the form of various cesses and their utilisation from the vear 2013-14 to 2016-17 are indicated in the statement enclosed: As may be seen therefrom, there have been instances of under utilisation of proceeds from cess collection for the dedicated schemes/intended purposes owing to numerous reasons such as pace of   expenditure of the scheme, slow   implementation and absorptive capacity of Ministry/Department to spend in a year. In such cases, the budget allocation to Ministries/Departments for implementation of dedicated schemes is reviewed mid-year and revised allocations made, resulting in under utilisation in certain years;

(c)e(d) In cases of large collection of levies and application of such proceeds to various schemes across Ministries/Departments, dedicated reserve/corpus funds are created in Public Account for monitoring and regulating the inflow and outflow of funds with due appropriation authorised by Parliament:  However; there is mismatch between the actual collection of levies and their utilisation as precise estimation of receipts in the form of levies and its utilisation is not possible.

## Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Economic Affairs

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3531 TO BE ANSWERED ON FRIDAY, 16th MARCH, 2018 [PHALGUNA 25,1939 (SAKA)]

## PROPER UTILISATION OF CESS

## 3531. SHRI B.V\_ NAIK:

Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether more than a quarter  of cess collected names remains unutilized for the intended purpose and said amount diverted for other purposes;
- (c) whether it has been difficult for the Government to monitor the utilisation of the cess in order to ascertain that its usage is for the intended purposes or diverted for some other expenditure; and
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the reaction of the Government thereto;
- (d) if so, the details thereof with the measures taken for the easy tracking of such amount collected and its expenditure? along

## ANSWER

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