12:41 Government examines issue of regularising contract employees.
12:40 Rs. 1,000 crore earmarked for weaker section housing scheme comprising two bed room flats.
12:39 Constituency development programme fund increased from Rs. 1 crore to Rs. 1.5 crore. Rs. 234 crore allocated for this purpose.
12:38 Rs. 90 crore for sports stadium and modernisation of sports facilities across the state.
12:37 Rs. 100 crore earmarked for Godavari pushkaralu.
Govt announces Rs. 100 crore development plan for temple town of Yadagirigutta.
Rs. 60 crore for infrastructure development in tourism destinations and circuits.
12:36 Rs. 11 crore earmarked for Samskrutika Sarangi to spread awareness about government programmes through cultural artists.
12:35 Tourism and culture gets a fillip. Telangana Kala Bhavan to come up in 11 acres near India Park in Hyderabad. Telangana kala Bhavan and kaloji cultural centre in warangal get Rs. 15 crore allocation.
12:34 Rs. 1,000 crore investment in TSGENCO under state plan.
12:33 Rs. 3,241 crore allocated to energy sector, which includes Rs. 3000 crore in subsidy.
12:32 Corpus fund of Rs. 300 crore for Herita Haram scheme to raise 230 crore trees in next four years. Forest college gets 10 crore.
12:31 Journalists in Telanagana to get health cards. Rs. 10 crore allotted for construction of Journalist Bhavan.
12:30 Telangana government signs MoU with Chattaisgarh for supply of 1000 MW
12:29 NTPC to set up 4000 MW plant at Ramagundam
12:28 BHEL to set up thermal plants with a capacity of 6000 MW.
12:27 20,000 MW power to be added in next 5 years.
12:26 TSRTC gets 400 crore for procuring 1000 new buses.
12:25 All roads connecting Mandala headquarters to District headquarters to be made into double lane roads at a cost of Rs. 400 crore.
12:24 Power loom weavers to get one lakh loan waiver.
12:23 Rs. 19.30 crore incentive for SC entrepreneurs to set up industries.
12:22 Telangana government plans to link research institutes academia and industry in and around Hyderabad under the umbrella of research and innovation circle of Hyderabad (RICH).
12:21 NIMZ has potential to attract investments of Rs. 40,000 crore and employment for 3 lakh people and support 4.5 lakh people indirectly.
12:20 Major national project as part of national investment, and manufacturing zone to come up in Medak district spread over 12,365 acres.
12:19 Rs. 90 crore for ITIR projects in Hyderabad.
12:18 Land bank to be set up in five lakh acres For establishment of industries. Telangana industrial infrastructure corporation to overlook land allocation. Rs. 100 crore allocated for providing facilities in the land.
12:17 Chasing cell established at CMO to ensure faster clearance of industrial approvals on day-to-day basis.
12:16 Industrial growth picked up to reach 2.7 per cent against 0.9 per cent growth last year.
12:15 Health university to come up at Warangal
12:14 Rs. 42 crore set apart for upgradation of 42 area hospitals in the state.
Additional 40 crore budget to strengthen eye, mental, chest and ENT hospitals.
Medical college buildings to get Rs. 152 crore.
12:13 Health sector gets Rs.2,282 crore.
Gandhi and Osmania hospitals provided Rs. 100 crore each. Maternity hospital in Hyderabad to get Rs. 50 crore. Nil outré and King Koti hospitals given Rs. 30 crore and Rs. 25 crore each.
12:12 Rs. 25 crore earmarked to provide improvised education from KG to PG.
Rs. 940 crore for setting up model schools at mandal level. Technical education gets Rs. 212 crore. IIIT Basara gets Rs. 119 crore.
12:11 Rs. 100 crore allocated for one time supply of LPG connections to poor women.
12:10 Rs. 1,317 crore earmarked for payment of pensions to aged and widows. Pension amount enhanced to Rs. 1,000 per month for aged and widows under the Asara pension scheme. Disabled to get Rs. 1,500 per month. Rs. 367 crore for disabled pensions.
12:09 Rs. 1,003 crore for women and child welfare schemes.
12:08 Rs. 330 crore for Kalyanalaxmi scheme in which a newly-weded woman gets 51,000.
12:07 Government earmarks Rs. 7,579 crore and Rs. 4,559 crore respectively for SC and ST sub plans. Rs. 2,022 crore for welfare backward classes. Rs. 1,030 crore for minorities welfare.
12:06 Tribal museum and memorial for Gond martyr Kumram Bheema to be set up at Jodeghat in Adilabad district.
12:05 Government plans suitable provision for development of fisheries sector.
12:04 Rs. 1000 crore earmarked for distributing land to landless SC families.
12:03 Tribal sub plan raised 9.34 per cent amount to 4461 crore in the budget. Tribals hamlets to be upgraded to gram panchayats. Schemes to be formulated on the lines of ITDAs for tribals living in plain areas.
12:02 Govt committed to provide Rs.50,000 crore for welfare of SCs in next five years. Social welfare department renamed as SC welfare department.
12:01 Government allots 16.30 crore as incentive give to milk producers. Rs. 4 per litre incentive for those supplying milk to Vijaya Dairy, a govt-run dairy.
12:00 Govt announces Rs. 20 crore power subsidy for poultry farmers. 1.5 lakh tonnes of maize supplied to poultry farmers at subsidised rates of Ra 10 per kg.
11:59 Government to give 100 per cent subsidy to SC/ ST farmers, 90 per cent to small and marginal farmers 80 per cent to others for setting up drip irrigation projects. Rs. 250 crore allocated for this purpose.
11:58 State to promote drip irrigation in 1.36 lakh acres.
11:57 Green house farming to be promoted in 1000 acres around Hyderabad in pilot basis to cultivate exotic and unseasonal vegetables at a cost of Rs. 200 crore. Government to extend 75 per cent subsidy to set up green houses.
11:56 Government decides to consolidate agricultural land holdings to make farming prices utile and intensive.
11:55 Government proposes to make Telanagana as seed bowl of the country.
Rs. 100 crore allocated for farm mechanisation.
Rs. 20 crore earmarked for crop colonies and soil testing.
Rs. 10 crore for farm field schools.
11:54 Government to release Rs.480 crore for input subsidy dues to farming community. Rs. 1,150 crore released for red jowar seed growers farmers in Nizamabad.
11:53 Government allocates Rs. 4,250 crore for farmer debt waiver scheme. Loans up to Rs. 1 lakh per family being waived.
11:52 To provide piped drinking date through a network of pipelines at a cost of Rs. 25,000 crore, Rs. 2,000 crore allocated this year.
11:51 State drinking water grid to be established.
11:50 Government focussed on water and drinking Water projects, says Mr. Rajendar. Ten per cent of water in irrigation projects to be used for drinking water purposes.
11:49 Nettempadu, Kalwakurthy, Bheema, Koil sagar lift irrigation schemes to be completed this year. Total of 2,97,550 acres to be brought under irrigation under these projects.
11:48 With a focus on revival of tanks and irrigation sources, budget allocates Rs. 2000 crore for restoration of irrigation tanks.
45,000 irrigation tanks to be restored in five years, out of which, 9000 tanks will be restored this year.
Rs. 6500 crore alloted for irrigation and command area development.
11:47 The comprehensive household survey will be used to better target welfare programmes.
11:46 First time, a news state has attempted to democratise the entire process of budget making: Finance Minister
BJP legislators, in a symbolic protest on power shortage in Telangana, arrive at Legislative Assembly carrying lanterns, on the first day in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Photo: Mohammed Yousuf
BJP legislators tried to enter the Legislative Assembly with lanterns to protest power shortage in the state. They were prevented by Assembly guards, who refused entry to the legislators if they carried lanterns. Photo: Mohammed Yousuf
11:46 Short, medium and long term action plans conceived for which 14 task force committees were constituted, Mr. Rajender says explaining the budget process.
11:45 Budget is a major departure from the past both in its approach and content. People suggestions were sought at village and ward level before preparing the budget, says Mr. Rajendar.
11:44 Government allocates Rs. 100 crore for welfare of families of Telangana martyrs.
11:43 Though the budge is only available for ten months of current financial year 2014-15, it has been so programmed to integrate see lesson into the five year perspective plan 2014-19, says Mr. Rajender.
11:42 Non plan expenditure is Rs. 51,989 crore; Plan expenditure is Rs. 48,648 crore; Estimated revenue surplus is 301 crore; Fiscal deficit estimated at Rs. 17,398 crore.
11:40>Finance Minister Etela Rajender is presenting the maiden budget of Telangana Assembly. TV Grab/Photo: P. V. Sivakumar
11.33 Telangana government presents budget with a total expenditure of Rs. 1,00,637 crore for a period of ten months.
11.30 ABN Andhra Jyothi channel journalists protesting at the media point in Assembly against the blocking of their channel by MSOs in Telangana.
11.02 BJP legislators walk to the Telangana Assembly with lanterns along to highlight the power crisis in the new State. Photo: P. V. Sivakumar
Buzz around the budget: Expectations and hopes
- Plan and non-plan allocations are expected to be around Rs.1 lakh crore.
- Thrust on development projects, including revival of thousands of minor irrigation tanks, Hyderabad water supply, allocations to tide over power crisis in the short term.
- Fourteen taskforce committees gave their reports on how to achieve set goals in next four years and ways to mobilise the needed resource. Sources said that proposals worth Rs. 5,000 crore were made based on task force committee reports.
- The 2014-15 budget will be a precursor to the next year’s full-fledged budget and it has done away with adhocism that used to be part of budget preparation in the united State.
- The new feature will be rationalisation of about 1,200 schemes - of the Centre, State, NABARD and the externally aided schemes – to 750 schemes to enable the departments give better focus.
- Rise of farmer suicides, power crisis facing Telangana are likely to dominate the proceedings.
- The limbo surrounding the Hyderabad Metro Rail project is expected to be raised by the Opposition in the Budget session
- The budget proposals focused on revenue mobilisation with an annual growth target of 15 to 20 per cent apart from open market borrowings to ground its ambitious programmes. The State so far borrowed Rs.2,800 crore and could raise Rs.6,000 crore more.
- One of the recommendations of the task force committees is setting up an Evaluation Authority of State of Telangana (EAST) on the lines of Karnataka for an independent evaluation of any important project.
- The election promises of TRS, particularly housing, and the household survey had left loopholes that were not plugged.
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The 29th state of India is all to present its maiden budget on Wednesday. A lot is expected from Telangana's Finance Minster Etela Rajender. What has added to the anticipation like never before about the allocations to various key sectors is the deep involvement of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao in the budget preparation processs
