THE KARNATAKA SCHEDULED CASTES SUB-PLAN AND TRIBAL SUB-PLAN (PLANNING, ALLOCATION AND UTILIZATION OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017
KARNATAKA ACT NO. 38 OF 2017
(First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the seventeenth day of July, 2017)
(Received the assent of the Governor on the fourteenth day of July, 2017)
An Act to amend the Karnataka Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan and Tribal sub-plan (Planning, Allocation and Utilization of Financial Resources) Act, 2013;
Whereas it is expedient to amend the Karnataka Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan and Tribal sub-plan (Planning, Allocation and Utilization of Financial Resources) Act, 2013 (Karnataka Act 65 of 2013) for the purposes hereinafter appearing
Be it enacted by Karnataka State Legislature in the sixty-eighth year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan and Tribal sub-plan (Planning, Allocation and Utilization of Financial Resources) (Amendment) Act, 2017.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Substitution of expression.- In the Karnataka Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan and Tribal sub-plan (Planning, Allocation and Utilization of Financial Resources) Act, 2013 (Karnataka Act 65 of 2013) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) in the title, preamble, short title and in the Act,-
(i) for the words "plan” or “plan outlay” or “annual plan" wherever they occur, the words "allocable budget" shall be substituted; and (ii) for the words "sub-plan" wherever they occur, the words "sub-allocation" shall be substituted.
3. Amendment of section 2.- In section 2 of the principal Act,- (i) clause (a) shall be renumbered as clause (aa), and before clause (aa) as so renumbered the following shall be inserted, namely:-
"(a) "allocable Budget" means the total expenditure in the Consolidated Fund of the State excluding exempted expenditure;
(ii) after clause (aa) as so renumbered the following shall be inserted, namely:-
(ab) "exempted expenditure" means the expenditure exempted from the applicability of this Act and includes expenditure on salary, salary Grant in aid, pension, administrative expenditure, principal repayment and interest payment on account of the State Government's own borrowings and off-budget borrowings by the State Government Undertakings and any other expenditure of administrative nature notified by the Government;"
(iii) in clause (l), for the words “forty percent”, the words “such percentage as may be prescribed” shall be substituted. (iv) clause (n), shall be omitted. 4. Amendment of section 3.- In section 3 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2),-
(i) in the entries relating item (b), for the words "Ex-officio Member", the words "Vice-Chairman" shall be substituted;
(ii) after item (g) and entries relating thereto the following shall be inserted, namely:-
"(ga) The Chief Secretary to Government - Ex-officio member
5. Amendment of section 5.- In section 5 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), in the entries relating to serial number (3), for the words
"Ex-officio Member", the words " Ex-officio Member Secretary" shall be substituted.
6. Amendment of section 11.- In section 11 of the principal Act, after sub-section (2) the following shall be inserted, namely:-
"(3) The Government may constitute at taluka level Monitoring Committees in such manner with such Members as may be prescribed which shall also be responsible for implementation of the Scheduled Castes sub allocation and Tribal sub allocation."
7. Amendment of section 13.- In section 13 of the principal Act, for the words "In case of unspent amount out of Allocation in a particular financial year, the same may be added to the next year Allocation" the words and figures "In case of unspent amount out of Allocation in a particular financial year, in a particular demand, determined as per the Audited Accounts, the same may be added to the allocation for the financial year, next to the immediately succeeding financial year to the same demand of the concerned Administrative Department and demand of Social Welfare Department in the ratio of 2:1 respectively" shall be substituted.
8. Amendment of section 15.- In section 15 of the principal Act, in proviso, for the words "Annual and Five Year Plans and", the word "Development" shall be substituted.
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