Fourth budget of Yogi 2.0 today, focus on infra push likely

All eyes on schemes for welfare of youth, women, farmers and boost to spiritual tourism

- Umesh Raghuvanshi

LUCKNOW: As the Yogi government 2.0 presents its fourth annual budget (2025-2026) of an estimated size of ₹8.5 lakh crore, it faces the task of announcing more welfare measures and giving a further push to development to achieve the objective of making Uttar Pradesh a trillion-dollar economy.

Finance minister Suresh Khanna is set to present the budget in the state legislative assembly at 11am in the presence of chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

This will be the second-last budget of the Yogi 2.0 government (before the state goes to polls in early 2027). With consistent improvement in the state's financial position, more allocations are likely for the development of infrastructure, construction of roads and expressways, that has been in focus in the previous budgets.