Telangana presents massive ₹3.04 lakh crore budget for 2025-26
The Hindu
Telangana Government presents ₹3.04 lakh crore budget for 2025-26, focusing on welfare, development, and economic growth.
The Telangana Government has presented a massive ₹3.04 lakh crore budget for the financial year 2025-26.
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The budget, crossing the ₹3 lakh crore mark for the first time since the formation of Telangana State, encompasses revenue expenditure of ₹2.26 lakh crore and capital expenditure of ₹36,504 crore. The total outlay is 5% higher than the current year’s ₹2.91 lakh crore, a moderate rise as compared to budgets introduced in the assembly in the past.
The budget however reflects the State’s continued dependence on borrowings estimated at close to ₹70,000 crore including open market borrowings of ₹64,539 crore during the next fiscal.
The welfare-oriented budget presented in the Assembly by Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka who holds Finance portfolio projects a surplus of ₹2,738 crore and a fiscal deficit of ₹54,009 crore, mainly on account of borrowings, while the primary deficit is pegged at ₹34,640 crore.
Major allocations have been made to agriculture (₹24,439 crore), panchayat raj (₹31,605 crore) and education (₹23,108 crore). The backward classes, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes welfare, however, garnered the lion’s share of allocations with BC welfare accounting to ₹11,405 crore, SC welfare (₹40,232 crore) and ST welfare (₹17,169 crore) taking the total allocations to close to ₹69,000 crore.
Another priority area in allocations was the six guarantees of the Congress, which were given ₹56,084 crore. Rythu Bharosa was given ₹18,000 crore and Cheyutha ₹14,861 crore while Indiramma houses received ₹12,571 crore. The Mahalakshmi scheme providing free bus travel to women received ₹4,305 crore.
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