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AP State Assembly Budget 2024 Highlights: 62% of the population in Andhra Pradesh depends on agriculture and allied sectors.
Andhra Pradesh Budget 2024 Highlights: Govt presents ₹2.94 lakh cr budget for FY25
Andhra Pradesh government on Monday presented a budget of ₹2,94,427.25 crore for FY25 with a revenue expenditure estimated at ₹2,35,916.99 crore and capital expenditure at ₹32,712.84 crore.
Finance Minister Payyavula Keshav, while presenting the budget in the Assembly, said the estimated revenue deficit is around ₹34,743.38 crore (2.12 per cent of the GSDP) and the fiscal deficit is estimated at around ₹68,742.65 crore (4.19 per cent of the GSDP) for the financial year.
“The budget proposals which I am presenting today were made by keeping the state’s financial position in consideration and to revive the (state) financially by creating wealth. This is aimed at restarting the financial wheels of the state,” said Keshav.
The budget allotted ₹16,739 crore for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development for FY25, a portfolio held by Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan.
A total of ₹29,909 crore for school education and ₹18,421 crore for Healthcare and Family welfare were allotted in the 2024-25 budget.
Attacking the earlier YSRCP government, Kehsav said by the time the previous regime was out of power, the state’s financial position was on the verge of collapse.
Opposition YSRCP boycotted the session today.
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