The general council of the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) has passed the budget proposals of the university for 2016-17.
The 125th meeting of the council which met in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday approved the budget estimates without declaring new programmes. Vice Chancellor P. Rajendran, who chairs the council, presented the Rs.546.63-crore budget which envisages non-Plan expenditure of Rs.378.94 crore and Plan expenditure of Rs.68.11 crore. The budget includes a non-Plan grant-in-aid of Rs.281.91 crore and Plan grant-in-aid of Rs.65.50 crore. Mr. Rajendran said the non-Plan grant-in-aid was expected to go up in the light of the new pay revision, recruitment of staff and other unavoidable expenditure. He assured the House that a separate meeting of the council would be held to discuss detailed budgetary programmes after the election code of conduct was withdrawn.