Govt presents 2nd supplementary budget of Rs 17865.72 crore

The UP government on Tuesday presented its second supplementary budget of Rs 17865.72 crore for 2024-2025, including additional provisions for sprucing up the energy sector, making Prayagraj Mahakumbh secure and magnificent, creating development infrastructure, providing additional funds for maintenance of cows and ensuring the sanctity of examinations.

- Umesh Raghuvanshi

The size of the second supplementary budget is 2.42% of the state's annual budget of Rs 7.36 lakh crore. The state government had earlier presented the first supplementary budget of Rs 12209.93 crore, and this takes the size of the state's total budget size to Rs 7.66 lakh crore in 2024-2025.

The state government proposes to fund supplementary demands by achieving revenue realisation (tax and non-tax) and cutting down unproductive expenditure.