FINANCE

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Revenue

Expenditure

Heads of Revenue 1911-1912

Land revenue

Opium

Salt .

Stamps

Excise

Provincial rates

Customs .

Assessed taxes

Forests

Registration

Tribute

Interest

Post Office Telegraph ^ and Mint. j

Civil depart- ments

Miscellaneous .

Railways : Net Receipts

Irrigation .

Other public works

Military receipts

Total I'e venue

Rs.

31,11,48,000

8,85,71,000

5,11,47,000

7,17,19,000

11,47,03,000

83,39,000

9,85,29,000

2,45,95,000

2,87,93,000

li4,90,000

89,74,000

2,17,23,000

1912-1913

Rs^^

31,91,89,000

5,43,31,000

5,14,17,000

7,36,19,000

11,86,18,000

82,56,000

9,59,75,000

2,46,81,000

2,96,17,000

66,54,000

00,59,000

1,84,09,000

5,29,47,000 : 5,23,46,000

1,81,00,000 1,09,98,000

22,92,67,000 5,06,58,000

48,85,000 1,90,96,000

1,83,99,000 82,66,000

21,81,04,000 5,88,16,000

48.14,000 1,97,70,000

1,23,05,82,000|1, 19,03, 10,000 j (S2,038,800Z.) (79,354,000/.)

Dffice, ^ 3graph, J' Mint J

Heads of Expenditure

Refunds, "j

compensa- J-

tions, ifec. J Charges of col- 1

lection . i Interest Post Office,

Tele

and

Civil salaries, &c. Miscel. Civil )

charges . / Famine relief "j

and insur- V

ance . J

Railways : Inter-"k

est and miscel-!

laneous ch'ges/ Irrigation . Other public 1

works. . J Military services

1911-1912

Rs.

2,31,30,000

10,73,70,000 3,11,97,000

4,90,47,000

24,69,93,000 7,39,92,000

1,50,00,000

18,24,27,000

4,76,38,000

8,00,88,000

31,44,27,000

1,17,13,09,000

1,28,78,000

Total . Add — Portion of 1 Allotments to Provin. Govts, not spent by them in the i year. . . / i Deduct— Portion , I of Provin. Ex- penditure de-

frayed from Provincial bal- ances

Totalexpenditurel charged again.st>l, 18,41, 87,000 revenue . . ) (78,945,8007.)

1912-1913

Rs.

2,25,06,000

11,03,46,000 3,06,78,000

4,86,77,000

26,21,59,000 7,3r.,21,000

],. 50,00,000

18,77,75,000

4,97,24,000

8,48,27,000

30,61,88,000

1,19,15,01,000

2,33,66,000

1,16,81,35,000 (77,875,7007.)

In addition to the above, there was a capital expenditure on State railways and irrigation works in 1911-1912 of Rs. 12,84,44,000. The estimated amount in 1912-13 is Rs. 13,87,84,000.

The following table shows the receipts from the most important sources of revenue, land, opium, customs, excise and salt in 1900-1 and 1906-7 to 1911-12. The falling off in the land revenue in 1908 was due to unfavour- able agricultural conditions. The decrease in the opium revenue in 1908 was due partly to a curtailment of exports as a result of the measures adopted by the Government of India to co-operate with China towards the eventual extinction of the opium habit among the Chinese, and partly to a lower average price obtained at the monthly auctions, which also accounts for the fluctuations in previous years ; the increase in 1911 was due to the ex- ceedingly high prices realised at the monthly auctions. The large falling off in the salt revenue in 1908 is attributable to the reduction of the duty to 1 rupee a maund with effect from March 20, 1907 ; it had previously been reduced from 2^ rupees a maund to 2 rupees with effect from March 18, 1903,

and to 1^ rupees with effect from March 22, 1905. The rates of duty on im-