ODISHA STATE BUDGET 2021-22

Besides the regular state and central provisions for the state budget and grants, there are certain extra budgetary resources at the State and District level like CAMPA fund, OMBADC fund, DMF fund, Odisha State Agricultural Marketing Board Fund and BOCWWB fund, so the convergence approach is being followed to optimise the programme funding by the state. [...] From the 2016-17 annual plan the name of the Planning and Coordination department has been changed to Planning and Convergence Department with a dedicated convergence cell. [...] Off budget or extra budgetary resources like District Mineral Foundation Trust fund and OMBADC for specific scheduled areas in the state contribute 8.38% to the total programme budget of the state. [...] This extra budgetary provision will be disbursed to specific schemes and programmes formulated by the concerned departments and there is no mechanism to understand whether; i) The project is wholly funded from these two funds ii) The project is partially funded from these two funds with additional state plan fund and central assistance iii) The project fulfils the objective of welfare of mining af. [...] Sporadic information is provided in the budget document Off-budget resources like OMBADC (₹2,150 crore) and DMF (₹665 crore) are employed in convergence mode for piped water supply in 8 mineral bearing districts.