Quote:The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has set up public libraries in several slums of the city for the benefit of school students and youth. But while the libraries have been well received by locals, they lack basic facilities like drinking water and toilets.
As per reports, there are 264 identified slums in 59 wards of CMC. ... the civic body has so far constructed eight libraries at Tilak Nagar, Dhabaleswar Gada, Krushak Bazaar, Jagatpur, Nimpur and Bali Sahi slums.
The civic body has also engaged attendants (one each for a library) from a local self-help group for maintenance of the facilities. The libraries can accommodate 50 readers each at a time and get electricity through solar power.
States’ own tax revenue (SOTR) has increased from 5.7 per cent of GDP in 2003-04 to 6.9 per cent of GDP in 2022-23
Till 2016-17, sales tax/VAT was the largest component of own tax revenue. From 2017-18, however, State Goods and Services Tax (SGST) has emerged as the most important source, followed by sales tax/VAT, excise duty, stamp duty and registration fees and taxes on vehicles (Chart III.2).
SONTR: States Own Non-tax Revenue
States’ Own Non-Tax Revenue (SONTR) consists of six components viz., general services, social services, economic services, fiscal services, interest receipts, and ‘dividends and profits’. The share of SONTR in total revenue has declined steadily in the last decade, remaining below 10 per cent since 2010-11 (1.3 per cent of GDP in 2022-23) (Chart III.4).
3.12 Economic services are the major source of non-tax revenue for States and their share in SONTR has increased to around 60 per cent in 2021-22 and 2022-23 (Chart III.5). General services, social services and interest receipts are the other important components of SONTR. In most of the States, the contributions from fiscal services and receipts from dividend and profit remain insignificant.
3.13 States’ revenue from economic services is mainly generated from industries, power, petroleum, major and minor irrigation projects and forestry and wildlife (Chart III.6). While revenues from industries have increased significantly over the years, the shares of forestry and wildlife have declined.
3.14 Major heads of revenue from social services are medical and public health, education, and urban development (Chart III.7). The shares of revenues from education, sports, art and culture are on the decline.
3.15 There is a wide variation in own non-tax revenue collection across States (Table III.2). Mineral rich States like Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand have a significantly higher share of non-tax revenue than other States, with over 60 per cent of their non-tax revenue coming from mining royalties and premium paid by mines. In Goa, electricity distribution is a departmental activity and electricity charges collected from consumers are a part of government nontax revenue. In contrast, in most other States, electricity distribution is undertaken by power distribution companies (DISCOMs).
Following is from Samaja obtained from https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=818...9089171476 about a sports complex being built on the Mahanadi waterfront that will be used by SCB and BOSE students. It will have facilities for 10 different sports: cricket (2), soccer (2), swimming pool, tennis (4), badminton (6), basketball (4), volleyball (4), beach volley ball, throw ball, kho-kho.
