Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has the enviable record of having presented 15 state budgets in his parallel capacity as finance minister over three long decades since 1994. But in giving shape to the one he presented on February 16, the CM would have also confronted an acute version of the old growth-vs-welfare debate: he had the unenviable task of walking a fine balance between expenditure on welfare schemes and asset creation. On one hand were the Congress's five big poll guarantees that the government says have already lifted an estimated 12 million families above the poverty line since May 2023, by providing them an annual income of Rs 50,000-55,000. On the other was the clamour from legislators, including the Congress's own MLAs, for funds towards development.
In the end, Siddaramaiah juggled both by setting aside Rs 52,009 crore for the welfare guarantees in the coming fiscal, and Rs 55,877 crore towards capital expenditure in a total budget size of Rs 3.71 lakh crore. While the substantial outgo on the former more than doubled the state's revenue deficit to Rs 27,354 crore, the CM kept the fiscal deficit and total outstanding liabilities within the stipulated norms of three percent and 25 percent of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP), respectively.
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