Telangana Finance Minister Eatala Rajender presented the maiden budget, his first too, of the new born State in the Assembly on Wednesday with an outlay of Rs. 1,00,637 cr including Rs. 48,648 crore plan and non-plan outlay of Rs 51,989 crore.
Introducing the budget for 10 months of the current fiscal amid protests by the Opposition Congress and TDP MLAs, the minister said their government's priority was to rebuild the State which was indiscriminately exploited and devastated by the combined Andhra Pradesh rulers.
Acknowledging the role of martyrs in achieving statehood to Telangana, the minister said they had allocated Rs. 100 crore for financial assistance of Rs. 10 lakh per martyr's family. In all, the government had identified 459 of them so far.
Mr. Rajender said an allocation of Rs. 6,500 crore was made for irrigation with the priority to complete four lift irrigation projects in Mahabubnagar district on war-footing and create irrigation potential of 2.97 lakh acres.
He put the revenue surplus at Rs. 3.02 crore.
Other important allocations are: restoration of tanks (Rs. 2,000 cr), SC Sub-Plan (Rs. 7,539 cr), ST Sub-Plan (Rs. 4,559 cr) and drinking water grid (Rs 2,000 cr).
