CM Baghel wrote a letter to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman,

Bhupesh Baghel has written a letter to Union Finance Minister Mati Nirmala Sitharaman, requesting him to pay again the quantity obtained as excise obligation to the state of Chhattisgarh.
The Chief Minister has written within the letter that the 12 months 2020-21 has been an especially tough monetary 12 months because of the results of the Kovid epidemic. This 12 months, as a result of antagonistic influence on all financial actions within the state, the state’s personal monetary sources are anticipated to lower by about 30 %. Recently, within the Union Budget for the 12 months 2021-22, you could have introduced the discount of excise obligation on petroleum merchandise, gold and silver and plenty of different objects, as an alternative of imposing ‘Agricultural Infrastructure Development Cess’. This is predicted to trigger a further lack of Rs 900 to 1000 crores to the state within the coming monetary 12 months.
Baghel has additionally talked about within the letter that the state’s GST within the monetary 12 months 2020-21. An quantity of Rs 3700 crore is but to be obtained from the Central Government beneath the top of compensation. After the announcement of 60 lakh tonnes of rice from the state up to now by the central authorities, the state’s rice quota has been reduce by 16 lakh tonnes, as a result of which the state is prone to endure an enormous loss within the disposal of further paddy collected by the state. .