Bhubaneswar, Sept. 29 -- Ahead of the supplementary budget 2019-20, the State Finance Department has directed all the administrative departments to refrain from seeking huge funds under one unit and instead make adjustment with the unused funds.

Through a letter, the Principal Secretary to Government, K K Meena has directed all the departments to keep adequate resource back-up and submit their proposals by October 22.

"Hence, supplementary statement of expenditure, 2019-20 is proposed to be purely an adjustment budget in which the administrative departments would be allowed to augment the provision in one unit only by locating equivalent savings in some other unit of expenditure," wrote Meena in a letter to administrative departments.

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