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Govt spend touches ₹20k cr during Onam season
The New Indian Express Kozhikode
|September 03, 2025
THE state government spent a whopping ₹20,000 crore this Onam season.
This included normal expenditure like salary and pension and festival-related expenses. ₹12,100 was spent on salary, bonus, pension and festival allowances to government employees and pensioners. ₹1,800 crore was spent on welfare pensions to 62 lakh beneficiaries. "All families in the state have benefitted from the government's steps to make Onam festivities affordable. The effective market intervention programmes helped in controlling prices of commodities," said Finance Minister K N Balagopal.
This story is from the September 03, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kozhikode.
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