Naveen govt tables ₹1.18L cr budget for first four months
The Morning Standard|February 09, 2024
IN view of the upcoming elections, Finance Minister Bikram Keshari Arukha on Thursday presented an interim budget of ₹1.18 lakh crore to meet expenditure of first four months of 2024-25. The total budget size has been fixed at ₹2.55 lakh crore, 11 percent more than the provisions made for 2023-24.

Though Arukha made no major announcements in the interim budget, he hinted on the things to come in the fullfledged budget to be placed in the Assembly by the next government in July, focusing on more investment, welfare schemes and growth.

The interim budget has detailed accounts of provisions for different ongoing schemes. An announcement of ₹1,000 crore for development of metro rail in Odisha and ₹2,000 crore as revolving fund to be utilised for paddy procurement by the

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