Revenue earners are not really good spenders!
You think the Customs and Excise officers are lavish? Honestly, they don't know how to spend money! Here's how various wings of the Department failed to spend money allotted to them.
The Directorate of Inspection was asked to spend 55.22 Crores of rupees - with much difficulty, it managed to spend 31.44 Crores.
Vigilance was given a budget of Rs. 4.52 Crores and it managed to spend 3.72 Crores.
The premier Academy, NACEN was able to spend 10.04 Crores out of the 10.40 Crores allotted to it - no wonder they were prompt in paying me the honorarium for lectures in NACEN. I wish they could get a little more so that there could be a little more lectures (paid)
The Publicity and publications wing could only spend 20.99 Crores from the grant of over thirty Crores.
The ace investigator CEI also could not spend all the money given to them. They managed to spend 15.41 Crores out of the 17.99 Crores given to them.
But one head where they could really spend the money was Secret Service Fund, which is mostly used for tea parties and flight tickets, was well spent. Out of 3.35 Crores, they could spend 3.21 Crores.
Give more money for the Academy and Secret Fund -at least they know to spend and tea and training are the two most essential requirements of government service.