Odisha state budget 2024

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Mootv Odisha / Bhubaneswar :

State budget today. The Mohan government’s first full budget for the financial year 2024-25 will be presented at 5 pm (Thursday). Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi will present the budget in the assembly as he has the finance department under his control. It can focus on agriculture, education, health, sports, employment and women. How much priority will be given to Jankalyan Yojana in the state BJP’s first government budget? What will the budget outline be? All eyes are now on it.

The former BJD government brought a working budget of Rs 2 lakh 55 thousand crore last February. It had written grants of 1 lakh 18 thousand crore rupees for 4 months. However, after the new government comes to the state, the budget may increase as some new schemes are included in the budget. The total size of the budget is estimated to touch 3 lakh crores. MSP of rice can be decided in the state budget. There may also be some announcements regarding the Subhadra Yojana expenditure budget. In addition, all eyes are on BSKY and Kalia Yojana of previous BJG government in the budget.

Before the Budget, the Economic Survey Report was presented in the Assembly yesterday (Wednesday) evening. It is said that Odisha will achieve 8.5 percent growth in 2023-24. In 2022-23, this economic growth was 7.9 percent. The per capita income of the people of the state has increased to 1 lakh 61 thousand 437 rupees in 2023-24. However, according to the survey report, Odisha is lagging behind the national average in terms of per capita income.

The Union Budget was presented in Parliament last Tuesday. Due to the dual engine government in Odisha, the state was expected to get a special financial package. But nothing like that was announced. However, Odisha will get 56 thousand 473 crore rupees in taxes and duties from the central budget. In the budget of 2023-24, Odisha received 50 thousand 11 crore 67 lakh rupees in this regard.