Budget 2023-24: Cabinet meeting chaired by CM KCR on Sunday approved the annual state budget for 2023-24 fiscal. On Monday Telangana finance minister T Harish Rao proposed an expenditure of Rs 2,90,396 cr, with revenue expenditure of Rs 2,11,685 cr and capital expenditure at Rs 37,525 cr.
Key Budget Allocations
Finance – Rs 49,749 Cr
Education – Rs 19,093 Cr
Health – Rs 12,161 Cr
Panchayat Raj – Rs 31,426 Cr
Agriculture – Rs 26,831 Cr
Irrigation – Rs 26,885 Cr
Electricity – Rs 12,727 Cr
Municipal and Urban Development – Rs 11,372 Cr
Dalit Bandhu – Rs 17,700 Cr
Roads and Buildings Dept – Rs 22,260 Cr
Industries and Commerce – Rs 4037 Cr
Minorities Welfare – Rs 2200 Cr
Backward Class Welfare – Rs 6229 Cr
Animal Husbandry and Fisheries – Rs 2071 Cr
Revenue Department – Rs 3560 Cr
Tribal Welfare – Rs 3965 Cr
Asara Pensions – Rs 12,000 Cr
Kalyana Lakshmi/Shaadi Mubarak – Rs 3210 Cr
Rythu Bandhu – Rs 1575 Cr
Rythu Bhima – Rs 1589 Cr
Palle and Pattana Pragathi – Rs 4834 Cr
elanagana budget session will continue till 12th February. T Harish Rao said, “ State has suffered discrimination even after the formation. In the combined state, we suffered at the hands of then rulers. And now we suffer similar discrimination by the Centre. The Centre is creating hurdles in the path of Telangana progress.”