Jharkhand government has made considerable progress in spending its annual plan fund during the current fiscal-2015-16,claims Additional Chief Secretary Amit Khare.

Khare claimed today,nearly a fortnight before the fiscal year 2015-16 ends on March 31,2016,that the sum spent was much higher in comparison to the records of the previous year-2014-15.

During 2015-16,Rs 20,951.33 crore was spent till March 15 which turns out to be 70-06 percent of the total state plan outlay against Rs 18,899.37 crore spent during the entire year 2014-15 upto March 31.

This means that the expenditure was more than 10.86 percent over the previous year,says Khare who holds the charge of the state finance department.