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Sidda Budget may cut amount meant for guarantee schemes
The Morning Standard
|February 18, 2026
WITH the state government at the receiving end of opposition barbs for spending large amounts on guarantee schemes and allegedly ignoring development projects, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah may reduce the allocation on these poll promises in the upcoming budget.
He will do that by cutting down the number of beneficiaries not eligible for the schemes.
Soon after coming to power in 2023, the Congress government implemented the guarantee schemes. In the supplementary budget that year, Siddaramaiah had allocated Rs 35,410 crore for eight months. Tn 2024-25, the fund was ₹56,000 crore and in 2025-26 (the current financial year), it is around ₹51,000 crore.
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