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Welfare focus in ₹3L crore Telangana budget
The Morning Standard
|March 20, 2025
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IN the face of subdued economic trends in the last fiscal, Deputy CM and Finance Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka tried to strike a perfect balance between welfare and development while presenting a 'pragmatic' Budget for 2025-26 with an outlay of ₹3.04 lakh crore. This is the first time that the Telangana Budget crossed the ₹3 lakh crore mark. The government is hoping that economic activity will pick up this year.
Of the total expenditure of ₹3,04,965 crore proposed for 2025-26, the estimated revenue expenditure is ₹2,26,982 crore and capital expenditure is ₹36,504 crore. Though Vikramarka presented his first budget for 2024-25 with an outlay of ₹2,91,059 crore, it was revised as ₹2,65,934.51 crore, with the outlay being downsized by close to 9%. The finance minister proposed a 15% incremental increase of the 2025-26 Budget outlay over the revised estimates of 2024-25.
This story is from the March 20, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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