About Rs 16.97 lakh allotted for hospitals, dispensaries and other medical programmes were surrendered unutilised to the State finance department during 1997-98. The governemnt allotted Rs 2.25 crore for diet, medicine and equipment during the last financial year to the three State-run medical colleges and hospitals, the TB, Filaria and Leprosy Control Programmes, primary health centres and other hospitals and dispensaries.The authorities are unable to say definitively why the amount was unutilised.