Gangtok, Feb. 22: A deficit budget of Rs 63.63 crore was placed in the Assembly today by Sikkim chief minister Pawan Chamling who also holds the finance portfolio, revenue and expenditure minister.

The total receipts of the state government envisaged for the next financial year stands at Rs 4,115.45 crore while disbursements add up to Rs 4,179.8 crore. Of the receipts, revenue garnered through taxes will be Rs 119 crore while Rs 1,013.22 crore will be from ?non-tax? revenue.

In the concluding speech of today?s session, Chamling announced that ?human security? was the theme of this year?s budget. He said the word ?security? was going through a ?definitional? change.

According to the chief minister, in the narrow prism of national security many aspects that directly impinge upon human beings are not really taken into account. Incidents like famines, natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis, ethnic cleansing, political violence, terrorism, genocide and epidemics were killing people 100 times more than wars.

?In policy terms, human security is an integrated sustainable, comprehensive security from fear, conflict, ignorance, poverty, social, cultural deprivation and hunger and can no longer be understood in purely military terms. It must encompass economic development, social justice, environmental protection, democratisation and respect for human rights and the rule of law,? he said.

In the morning, the House had passed the Sikkim Anti Drugs Bill, Sikkim Infrastructure Development Fund Bill, the Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management University Bill and the Sikkim Manipal Amendment Bill.

At the end of the session, Chamling presented the last and final supplementary demands in grants of the last fiscal. He also sought a resolution to amend the Sikkim Tax on Professionals, Trade, Callings and Employment Bill through a four-member committee to be chaired by him.