Odisha has registered a growth of around 19 percent in revenue generation in the first two months of the 2019-20 fiscal in comparison to the corresponding period of the previous financial year.
Finance Secretary A K Meena said the total revenue generation was Rs 6,505 crore by end of May 2019, while it was around Rs 5,466 crore in the corresponding period of 2018.
The revenue from non-tax source have grown by 43.21 percent with a total collection of Rs 2,247 crore while the revenue from own tax sources has grown by 9.25 percent with total collection of Rs 4,257 crore, Meena said.
The revenue generation from mining royalty and industrial water rate during the period has increased around 51.18 percent and 16.22 percent respectively, the finance secretary said.