Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami described the budget presented in the Uttarakhand Assembly on Tuesday as overall, inclusive, balanced and development-oriented.
The budgetary estimates for next year were up 10 per cent from the previous budget estimates of 2023-24, and 6.5 per cent up against the revised estimates.
Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has claimed that Congress government in the state has lost the majority in the assembly and that the party will decide its strategy during debate on the state budget in the assembly
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar announced on Tuesday that the state government would provide a grant amounting to Rs 78,000 to every household under the central government's rooftop solar scheme.
Shattering the 24-year-old tradition, the Pushkar Singh Dhami government is set to present the budget on the second day of the Uttarakhand Assembly session on Tuesday, defying the customary post-lunch presentation.
The fourth session of the 14th Nagaland Legislative Assembly's budget session commenced on Monday at the Nagaland Legislative Secretariat, with Governor La Ganesan addressing the House on the first day.
The Uttarakhand Assembly's budget session is set to commence tomorrow in Dehradun, where the government led by Pushkar Singh Dhami is scheduled to present a budget of approximately Rs 90 thousand crores.
The Uttarakhand government is set to table the 'Uttarakhand Public and Private Property Damage Recovery Bill' in the assembly during the upcoming budget session commencing on February 26 (Monday) to deal strictly with miscreants damaging government and private property during protests.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a swipe at the Congress on Sunday, saying that during its tenure, the budget for infrastructure was looted through scams, and he said that Congress used power to conceal these scams.