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No funds for poll promises

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March 11, 2025

The Maharashtra budget does not provide funds for the Mahayuti's flagship welfare schemes, which were promised during the Assembly elections.

- SUDHIR SURYAWANSHI @ Mumbai

MAHARASHTRA Finance Minister and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday tabled a mammoth ₹7.20 lakh-crore budget for 2025-26, focusing on using AI technology to spur agriculture growth and bring more land under irrigation through river-linking and irrigation projects. The annual receipts are pegged at ₹5.60 lakh crore against revenue expenditure of ₹6.06 lakh crore. It estimates the revenue deficit at ₹45,892 crore and a fiscal deficit of ₹1,36,234 crore.

The state government has also imposed and increased taxes on motor vehicles, making specific vehicle categories expensive to rake in additional annual revenue of ₹1,500 crore.

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Uber rides jump 26.5% in 2025 to 11.6 billion km

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Urban women fight stigma on breastfeeding

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Attempts made to destroy Indian languages have failed, says Pradhan

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2 Punjabi-origin illegal Indian migrants held in US for cocaine trafficking

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Colombia issues US a dare, European leaders team up

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HCs' reply on gender sensitisation panels sought

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NITI Aayog Report on the Internationalisation of Higher Education in India

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Ind-Ra sees GDP easing to 6.9%, rupee averaging at 92.26 next fiscal

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