lucknow a rs 323 crore budget deficit coupled with no new sources of revenue generation is likely to force lucknow university lu to scale down its plans for expansion of academic and administrative facilities in the next academic sessionlu tabled its 201920 annual budget before the finance committee on thursday with the report indicating a budget deficit of rs 323 crore and no new sources of revenue authorities said that lu would have to cut down on development activities to save costsas per the tabled budget lu generated rs 1677 crore as revenue from fees paid by students of various regular and selffinance course and other grantsits expenditure ran to the tune of rs 1996 crore of which rs 1438 crore was spent on salaries rs 8 crore on electricity rs 2 crore on maintenance and the remainder on conducting examinations and other miscellaneous expenses as we have no means to increase revenues the only way to meet this financial crisis is by cutting costs we cannot cut down the amount we spend on salaries paying taxes and bills which leaves development work said lu vicechancellor sp singh singh said that developmental projects like new construction on campus new software setting up hitech laboratories offering smart classes in departments and developing sports facilities are likely to suffer in the wake of the budget cutafter the implementation of seventh pay commissions recommendations lus expenditure on salaries has increased to rs 1438 crore from around rs 100 crore earlier we get only rs 44 crore from the government to pay salaries which is clearly insufficient the vc addedhe said that the university administration has exhausted all options for revenue collection we had even hiked fees of various courses in 2017 so we cannot increase it again in students interest if the government supports us enough just to pay the salaries we will be able to manage other expenses he added