Budgeting for agriculture and food
The Union Budget 2023-24 was presented against the backdrop of some critical geopolitical developments and was the last full budget before the next general elections. Signicantly, 2023 is also the year
Budget
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Budget size may come down
HYDERABAD: The State government is likely to cut down the allocations to departments, except those dealing with welfare and irrigation, in the budget to be presented in the Assembly on July 24. The State set a record of sorts last year when it presented a budget of little over Rs. 1 lakh crore with a plan expenditure of over Rs. 43,000 crore.
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Farming, rural development may keep the economy afloat
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: The 2009-10 budget could see the integration of agricultural activities and rural development schemes not only because they helped to prevent the global slowdown from hitting the rural economy but also because the two sectors appear more likely to lift the country out of the rut.
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Gujarat Budget has surplus of Rs 53.76 crore
Entertainment tax on Direct-to-Home (DTH) television connections is the only new tax proposed in the Rs 53.76 crore surplus Budget for 2009-10 presented in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly on Tuesday.
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Plantation sector relief in works
Rs 3,500-Cr Support Package Likely To Be Announced Independent Of The Budget THE government is readying a package of concessions worth around Rs 3,500 crore for the plantation sector as it looks to lift it out of a morass of rising input costs, a high debt burden and falling productivity levels.
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Gogoi presents Rs 4615-cr deficit Budget
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who is also holding the Finance portfolio, today presented the Budget for the 2009-10 fiscal with a closing deficit of Rs 4615.11 crore. However, the Budget presented by Gogoi has proposed a number of sops for the industrial sector, particularly for the small scale and medium scale industries.
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Budget to carry special package
Sapna Dogra Singh / New Delhi June 26, 2009, 1:09 IST The government
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Agriculture ministry wants hike in loan interest subsidy
IN ORDER to increase lending to the primary sector and to boost rural sector demand against the background of uncertain monsoons and consequent apprehensions over flagging economic growth, the Centre is under pressure to increase interest subvention on short-term crop loans to farmers in the coming Budget from the current 3% to 5-6%.
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Land, food bills to be placed in Budget session
New Delhi: With only a few days to go for the Budget session of the Lok Sabha to begin, parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal is scheduled to meet top officials of government departments and ministries on Thursday to draw up a list of bills to be introduced in the session.
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Centre rider on further funding of irrigation schemes
The Centre is unlikely to offer further funding to States on the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP) unless the State authorities briefed the Union Water Resource Ministry on the progress so far on the scheme.
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Sheila sets 8-yr deadline to clean Yamuna
It would take eight more years before Yamuna can be cleaned, declared Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the floor of the House of Delhi Assembly during the Budget session on Tuesday. The Chief Minister said there is no magic wand to clean Yamuna by 2010 Commonwealth Games.