Kerala Budget: Not quite up to expectations
1 year, 1 month ago

Kerala Budget: Not quite up to expectations

New Indian Express  

A crisis is an opportunity, and the context of Kerala's budget for 2024 was configured for such spectacular and solid announcements. Though the announcement "Programmes are being planned to attract investment to the tune of at least Rs 3 lakh crores within the next three years" generated a lot of interest at the beginning of the budget speech, no clear road map was laid out in the presentation. One exception would be admission to foreign and private universities in Kerala, but that needs wider political acceptability and recognition from the political leaders across party lines to attract investors. Other welcome steps include those on ease of starting a business, land pooling, infrastructure development for entrepreneurial activities, and announcements for converting Kerala into a hub of higher education, medical innovations, and industry. An announcement of Rs 250 crores for the development activities of the Digital University is a welcome step, and one could wish for more industry partnerships and openness towards realising the potential of other universities similar to the Digital University’s roadmap.

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Kerala Minister blames Centre’s fiscal policies for financial strain on states
5 days, 22 hours ago

Kerala Minister blames Centre’s fiscal policies for financial strain on states

Live Mint  

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 24 Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal on Monday said the country is going through a challenging period in which the rights of states are "under threat", and even economically sound states are facing "unprecedented financial strains" due to the Centre's fiscal policies. Speaking during the discussion on the Kerala Appropriation Bill 2025, Balagopal said if the state …

CPI(M) to discuss new pathways to propel Kerala into a knowledge economy
3 weeks, 4 days ago

CPI(M) to discuss new pathways to propel Kerala into a knowledge economy

The Hindu  

The CPI State conference, which will get under way in Kollam on Thursday, is set to carry out a review of the initiatives undertaken over the last three years for building a ‘Nava Keralam’, as spelled out in an alternative policy document presented by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is also a Polit Bureau member of the CPI, at the …

No populist measure as Kerala budget focusses on infra push
1 month, 3 weeks ago

No populist measure as Kerala budget focusses on infra push

Hindustan Times  

Kerala finance minister KN Balagopal presented the financial outlay of the state for FY 2025-26 on Friday, seeking to mop up revenue mobilising measures through tax hikes on land and vehicles, push the accelerator on building infrastructure and steering clear of populist measures ahead of local body elections this year and the assembly polls next year. In an address that …

Kerala budget projects stability but lacks major new initiatives
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala budget projects stability but lacks major new initiatives

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As opposed to belligerent posturing against the BJP-led Union government and the Opposition UDF last time, K N Balagopal opted to go forth on a positive note this time around. Stepping into the arduous task of keeping Kerala’s fiscal stock afloat ahead of back-to-back elections, it was the pragmatic politician rather than the finance minister that ruled the day. …

Kerala budget increases social sector funding, but no hike in pensions
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala budget increases social sector funding, but no hike in pensions

New Indian Express  

There has been a serious effort by the finance minister to sustain financial inputs in the social sector despite financial constraints. But the gender budget analysis presented shows total allocation for women and girls under all government departments together showed a rise of just 4%. Another highlight is the declaration that the pending social security pension payments will be paid …

Experts question Kerala budget’s revenue projections amid fiscal concerns
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Experts question Kerala budget’s revenue projections amid fiscal concerns

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: Does Finance Minister K N Balagopal’s budget calculations add up, or is he offering empty promises that are reliant on the economy’s robustness and tax-collection efforts? The budget document outlines an impressive increase in revenue receipts, aiming for Rs 1,52,351.67 crore in 2025-26, up from revised estimates of Rs 1,32,929.80 crore for 2024-25. The minister’s optimism hinges on substantial …

Kerala budget signals shift towards private investment
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala budget signals shift towards private investment

New Indian Express  

A weak fiscal position has been a long-standing issue in Kerala. The finance minister has tried to set a new direction by announcing relevant economic opportunities the state could avail itself of in the current context. This indicates the state’s focus is on high expenditure commitments and is unable to find ways to increase the share of long-term productive plans …

Reforms essential for ‘take-off’ of Kerala’s economy
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Reforms essential for ‘take-off’ of Kerala’s economy

The Hindu  

The Kerala Budget for 2025-26 was presented against the backdrop of an ever-deteriorating State finances. In this context of declining capital expenditure, it is difficult to take the Finance Minister’s announcements on investment projects seriously. Land tax is going to hurt ordinary people and higher tax on electric vehicles will slow down the green transition. The ‘special development zone’ announced …

Kerala Budget: ₹4,039.36 crore to be spent on research and development in 2025-26
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget: ₹4,039.36 crore to be spent on research and development in 2025-26

The Hindu  

The Kerala government hopes to spend an estimated ₹4,039.36 crore on research and development across sectors in 2025-26, according to the R&D Budget tabled in the State Assembly on Friday. Of the combined R&D allocation across sectors, ₹1,723.89 crore comes under plan and ₹2,315.46 crore under non-plan allocations, the R&D Budget for the 2025-26 fiscal, tabled in the Assembly as …

Kerala Budget 2025: centre in memory of MT among new cultural projects
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget 2025: centre in memory of MT among new cultural projects

The Hindu  

An MT study centre, in memory of writer M.T. An amount of ₹6 crore is earmarked for the conservation activities of various structures having archaeological value, while an amount of ₹10 crore has been set aside for the protection of ancient buildings in the State and ₹5 crore for the conservation of old Buddhist centres at Mavelikkara and Thakazhi. An …

Kerala brings out a ‘Citizen’s Guide to Budget’
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala brings out a ‘Citizen’s Guide to Budget’

The Hindu  

On page 12 of the ‘Citizen’s Guide to Budget,’ two piecharts attempt to describe government revenues and expenditure in the 2025-26 fiscal in the simplest possible manner; how a single rupee gets collected as government revenue and the manner in which it is spent. For the first time, the State government has prepared a ‘Citizen’s Guide to Budget’ to go …

Kerala Budget allocates funds to check propagation of fake news, pictures and videos
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget allocates funds to check propagation of fake news, pictures and videos

The Hindu  

The Kerala government will bolster its cyber wing to combat cybercriminals involved in propagating fake news, pictures and videos. A sum of ₹2 crore has been allocated to establish an efficient system by involving the Information and Public Relations Department, the Kerala Police and the Law department. A sum of ₹48.89 crore has been earmarked for the construction of police …

Kerala Budget has many projects, but their timely implementation is equally crucial
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget has many projects, but their timely implementation is equally crucial

The Hindu  

Kerala has been experiencing a persistent, acute, and unprecedented fiscal crisis. The crisis during the last decade can be divided into three phases — the 2016 White Paper on State finances which predicted a fiscal collapse by 2021, the unprecedented fiscal crisis declaration by Kerala’s Finance Minister in December 2022, and the unprecedented borrowing of the State in 2023-24 indicating …

Kerala Budget 2025: school education outlay rises by 5%
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget 2025: school education outlay rises by 5%

The Hindu  

Outlay for school education has gone up in the State Budget for 2025-26. Balagopal has earmarked ₹1,083.82 crore for school education, an increase of nearly 5% from the ₹1,032.62 crore allocated in the past financial year. With the Left Democratic Front government rolling out a comprehensive education plan to improve academic excellence in the new academic year, the Budget has …

Kerala Budget 2025: housing a major thrust area with new cooperative housing project for middle class
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget 2025: housing a major thrust area with new cooperative housing project for middle class

The Hindu  

Housing is a major thrust area of the Kerala Budget this year with Finance Minister K.N. The project is aimed at constructing at least 1 lakh houses in residential complexes for middle income groups including government employees in towns and cities within the next two years. The cooperative housing project will be modelled along the lines of successful models of …

Budget sets aside funds for supporting expats who returned home
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Budget sets aside funds for supporting expats who returned home

The Hindu  

Kerala has set aside ₹150.81 crore for various activities of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs, including ₹77.50 crore for the rehabilitation of expatriate Malayalis who have returned home after they lost their jobs overseas. Balagopal said that ₹25 crore had been set aside for the NoRKA Department Project for Returned Emigrants and another ₹23 crore to provide aid to the members of …

Kerala Budget 2025: mixed reactions from crisis-hit coir sector
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget 2025: mixed reactions from crisis-hit coir sector

The Hindu  

The State Budget for 2025-26 has evoked mixed responses from the crisis-ridden coir sector. A sum of ₹5 crore has been earmarked for the Coco Peat Industries Development Project, “which has high commercial potential.” Further, ₹13.50 crore has been allocated for the rejuvenation of Coir Cooperative Societies. ‘Grossly inadequate’ C. B. Chandrababu, president, Coir Workers Centre, said the announcements in …

Kerala Budget 2025: Opposition UDF terms Budget ‘a false and cruel construct with no significance’
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget 2025: Opposition UDF terms Budget ‘a false and cruel construct with no significance’

The Hindu  

Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. At a press conference, Mr. Satheesan said the Budget was “an inconsequential and embroidered document replete with false claims and hyperbole.“ He said the Budget had no bearing on public life because the government’s coffers were dry due to years of fiscal mismanagement and lax tax administration. Mr. Satheesan said that the “clandestine plan …

Kerala Budget 2025-26 LIVE updates: FM Balagopal says Kerala has survived most intense phase of financial crisis, announces Rs 750 crore for rehabilitation and rebuild initiatives in landslide-hit Way
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget 2025-26 LIVE updates: FM Balagopal says Kerala has survived most intense phase of financial crisis, announces Rs 750 crore for rehabilitation and rebuild initiatives in landslide-hit Way

The Hindu  

Balagopal presented the Kerala Budget for the 2025-26 fiscal in the State Legislative Assembly on Friday. The Minister said Kerala has survived the most intense phase of financial crisis without any of its welfare schemes or development work being affected. He accused the Centre of consistently reducing Kerala’s share in the divisible tax pool from 3.88% in the 10th finance …

Tough balancing act on the cards in Kerala Budget
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Tough balancing act on the cards in Kerala Budget

The Hindu  

The 2025-26 State Budget, to be presented on Friday, will be closely watched for measures designed to boost the economy and how Finance Minister K.N. Mr. Balagopal’s upcoming Budget presentation garners considerable interest in the context of the Union Budget’s silence on Kerala’s pleas for special financial packages for rehabilitating the landslide survivors in Wayanad and tackling rising human-wildlife conflicts. …

Kerala Budget to focus on accelerating growth, drawing investment: K.N. Balagopal
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget to focus on accelerating growth, drawing investment: K.N. Balagopal

The Hindu  

The 2025-26 Kerala budget will focus on accelerating the growth process that has been set in motion in the State, new investment models, and sustaining the pace on welfare spending, Finance Minister K.N. At a pre-Budget chat, Mr. Balagopal said he was satisfied with his performance as Finance Minister, expressing confidence that Kerala would be moving forward, and not backward, …

BJP in Kerala welcomes Budget; Congress, CPI(M) MPs call it 'disappointing'
1 month, 4 weeks ago

BJP in Kerala welcomes Budget; Congress, CPI(M) MPs call it 'disappointing'

Deccan Chronicle  

Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi: The BJP in Kerala termed the Union Budget 2024-25 as a "game-changer" even as some Congress and CPI MPs termed it as a "disappointment". BJP state president K Surendran said the budget was a "game-changer" as it provides a "massive relief" to the middle-class by exempting tax on incomes upto Rs 12 lakh per annum under the new …

Union Budget 2025: Kerala remains hopeful of a better deal this time
2 months ago

Union Budget 2025: Kerala remains hopeful of a better deal this time

The Hindu  

With Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman set to present the 2025-26 Union Budget on Saturday, Kerala is eyeing fiscal prop-ups, including a renewed demand for a ₹24,000-crore special economic package, “to tide over the current liquidity stress.” The southern State is eyeing – among other things – a ₹2,000-crore package for landslide-hit Wayanad, a special package for the Vizhinjam seaport …

Kerala Guv Highlights Financial Strain in Assembly Address
2 months, 1 week ago

Kerala Guv Highlights Financial Strain in Assembly Address

Deccan Chronicle  

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar addressed the state's financial issues during his inaugural policy speech at the 13th session of the 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly on Friday. He noted that Kerala is experiencing financial stress due to the lack of GST compensation and decreased grants from the Central Government. In his address, Arlekar stated,"Kerala has been facing financial stress …

Pinarayi Vijayan asks Kerala MPs to press Centre on key issues in Winter Session
4 months, 1 week ago

Pinarayi Vijayan asks Kerala MPs to press Centre on key issues in Winter Session

India Today  

Ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan held a crucial meeting with the state’s Members of Parliament on Thursday, urging them to strongly advocate for the state’s key demands in the House. PUSH FOR SPECIAL FINANCIAL PACKAGE Vijayan reiterated Kerala’s demand for a special financial package of Rs 24,000 crores, highlighting the state’s financial strain …

Centre approves borrowing limit of ₹21,253 Crore for Kerala to tackle economic crisis
10 months ago

Centre approves borrowing limit of ₹21,253 Crore for Kerala to tackle economic crisis

Op India  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come forward to assist Kerala in a bid to alleviate the state from the economic crisis as the Centre has sanctioned borrowings up to Rs 21,253 crores. In a post on X on Saturday, Chandrasekhar mentioned, “PM @narendramodiji’s govt steps up to assist Kerala’s economic crisis Government of India sanctions borrowings up to Rs 21,253 …

Kerala will conduct gender audit and ensure equal pay for women, says CM Pinarayi Vijayan
1 year, 1 month ago

Kerala will conduct gender audit and ensure equal pay for women, says CM Pinarayi Vijayan

New Indian Express  

As per the National Survey on Higher Education, the state has the highest participation of women in the higher education sector, he said, adding to his point about how it must also translate to more women joining the formal workforce. Kerala was also the first to implement gender budgeting for women in 1997 in local government bodies, the chief minister …

Kerala budget proposal: Foreign varsity plan stirs unease in CPI(M)
1 year, 1 month ago

Kerala budget proposal: Foreign varsity plan stirs unease in CPI(M)

Hindustan Times  

The announcement by Kerala Finance Minister KN Balagopal in the 2024-25 FY budget on February 5 about exploring opportunities to set up foreign university campuses in the state has stirred a hornet’s nest within the ruling CPI and its feeder organisations. In his budget speech, Kerala Finance Minister KN Balagopal had said opportunities for establishing foreign university campuses will be …

Kerala Budget: Rs 5,000 crore investment in tourism sector
1 year, 1 month ago

Kerala Budget: Rs 5,000 crore investment in tourism sector

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The budget identified tourism as one of the potential sectors for private investment, with an investment of Rs 5,000 crore expected in a year. This year’s total outlay for tourism, at Rs 351.43 crore, saw a dip of Rs 10.72 crore from the previous fiscal. A special scheme to enable more than 500 people to come together and stay …

Kerala Budget reflects fiscal squeeze; expert calls for radical change
1 year, 1 month ago

Kerala Budget reflects fiscal squeeze; expert calls for radical change

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: The numbers put forth by finance minister KN Balagopal in the budget reveal the financial challenges faced by the state, indicating only nominal changes that are unlikely to spur substantial transformation. The budget projected a fiscal deficit of 3.4% for FY25, a slight reduction from current fiscal’s revised estimate of 3.45%, while revenue deficit is anticipated to rise to …

Kerala tables budget, focus on investments
1 year, 1 month ago

Kerala tables budget, focus on investments

Hindustan Times  

Kerala finance minister KN Balagopal on Monday presented the budget for the 2024-25 which promised to attract investments worth ₹3 lakh crore in the next three years and declined to hike social welfare pensions, dues of which are pending for several months. Kerala finance minister KN Balagopal on Monday presented the budget for the 2024-25 which promised to attract investments …

Kerala Budget 2024 | Opposition Leader accuses Finance Minister of regurgitating old promises and papering over State’s dire economic situation
1 year, 1 month ago

Kerala Budget 2024 | Opposition Leader accuses Finance Minister of regurgitating old promises and papering over State’s dire economic situation

The Hindu  

The Congress-led United Democratic Front Opposition in Kerala has accused the Left Democratic Front government of delivering a Budget that sought to paper over Kerala’s dire economic situation by regurgitating empty promises. Mr. Satheesan said Mr. Balagopal destroyed the Budget’s sanctity and used the presentation in the Assembly as a bully pulpit to demonise the Opposition repeatedly. Mr. Satheesan said …

Policy tweaks needed for an ageing Kerala
1 year, 5 months ago

Policy tweaks needed for an ageing Kerala

New Indian Express  

The ageing population also means Kerala has to spend a significant portion of its budget on pensions. Finance minister K N Balagopal had flagged the concern, saying Kerala may become the state with the highest dependency ratio. The finance minister had promised steps to “scientifically study this unique situation and enable policy formulation foreseeing the future”. What Kerala needs are …

Kerala FM Balagopal uses budget presentation to criticise Centre’s alleged infringements on fiscal federalism
2 years, 1 month ago

Kerala FM Balagopal uses budget presentation to criticise Centre’s alleged infringements on fiscal federalism

The Hindu  

Balagopal used his budget presentation in the Kerala Legislative Assembly for 2023-24 fiscal to essay a critique of the Centre’s “conservative financial policies”. Politically loaded speech In a politically loaded budget speech, Mr. Balagopal made a clarion call to other non-Bharatiya Janata Party -ruled States and regional powers to join Kerala in the fight against what he termed attempts to …

Kerala’s demands on infra, fiscal policy ignored in Union Budget, says State government
2 years, 1 month ago

Kerala’s demands on infra, fiscal policy ignored in Union Budget, says State government

The Hindu  

The Union Budget 2023 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday appears to have dashed Kerala’s expectations with respect to specific demands made on the infrastructure and fiscal policy fronts. Balagopal blamed the Budget for neglecting Kerala, particularly the demands made by the State on fiscal policy. That said, Ms. Sitharaman’s announcements with regards to an Agriculture Accelerator Fund …

Kerala must exploit opportunities opened up in Budget, say industry leaders
2 years, 1 month ago

Kerala must exploit opportunities opened up in Budget, say industry leaders

The Hindu  

The Union Budget has unclogged a whole spectrum of economic opportunities and has something for everyone. Kerala must work to utilise these emerging opportunities, say industry leaders here on Wednesday. Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry Kerala State Council Geemon Korah says the Budget announcements referred to areas where Kerala has great strengths while changes in the personal income …

Explained | Kerala’s mounting public debt
2 years, 7 months ago

Explained | Kerala’s mounting public debt

The Hindu  

The story so far: Over the past few months, Kerala’s mounting debt liabilities have been brought into sharp focus with the Reserve Bank of India, the Comptroller and Auditor General, and the opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front flagging the issue. Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board A body corporate constituted by the Government of Kerala to mobilise financial resources outside of …

Revving up State finances a major challenge
3 years ago

Revving up State finances a major challenge

The Hindu  

Balagopal is scheduled to present the State Budget for the 2022-23 financial year in the Assembly on Friday. Mr. Balagopal's maiden full budget is keenly awaited, given the State's pressing need to increase revenues and realistically tackle mounting debt liabilities, even as solutions are offered to spur economic growth and employment generation with the pandemic-induced health emergency showing signs of …

Kerala budget to be presented on March 11
3 years, 1 month ago

Kerala budget to be presented on March 11

Deccan Chronicle  

Thiruvananthapuram: The one-month-long budget session of the Kerala Assembly will commence here on Friday with the policy address of Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. Assembly Speaker M B Rajesh on Wednesday said the fourth session of the 15th Assembly would begin on February 18 and the budget would be presented by Finance Minister K N Balagopal on March 11. "Finance Minister …

Kerala Budget 2020 | Mahatma Gandhi assassination painting becomes face of Kerala Budget 2020
5 years, 1 month ago

Kerala Budget 2020 | Mahatma Gandhi assassination painting becomes face of Kerala Budget 2020

The Hindu  

For a document filled with cold numbers, the Kerala Budget 2020-2021 presented by Finance Minister T.M. Right on the front cover was Tom Vattakuzhy’s painting ‘Death of Gandhi’, portraying Gandhi felled by Nathuram Godse’s bullets, flanked by his followers expressing myriad shades of grief and disbelief. The cover page of the Gender Budget Overview Report was a painting by Anujath, …

Kerala budget booklet has a cover picture of Gandhi’s assassination
5 years, 1 month ago

Kerala budget booklet has a cover picture of Gandhi’s assassination

Deccan Chronicle  

Thiruvananthapuram: The remarkable thing about Kerala’s annual budget, presented in the Assembly by finance minister T M Thomas Isaac on Friday, was that the booklet featured a cover picture of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Isaac said the current nationwide protests against the citizenship law are the biggest protests seen since Independence, and quoted a poem titled 'Fear' by a …

Budget 2020 reactions | Kerala CM slams Budget
5 years, 1 month ago

Budget 2020 reactions | Kerala CM slams Budget

The Hindu  

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2020-21 in the Parliament on Saturday. - PTI Goa CM terms Budget 'common man-centric' Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant welcomed the Union Budget 2020-21, terming it as “common man-centric”, while the opposition Congress slammed it saying that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was completely silent on the issue of unemployment. “I congratulate …

Opinion | The challenge of rebuilding Kerala
6 years, 7 months ago

Opinion | The challenge of rebuilding Kerala

Live Mint  

As the flood waters recede gradually in Kerala and the Kodagu district of Karnataka, the focus will begin to shift from relief operations to rebuilding. Such fiscal laws across the world have inbuilt flexibility that allow the borrowing limits to be crossed in the case of special circumstances such as a sharp recession or wars or natural calamities. One possible …

Kerala govt presents annual budget, focuses on fiscal discipline
7 years, 1 month ago

Kerala govt presents annual budget, focuses on fiscal discipline

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: Kerala’s ruling Left front government presented its annual budget on Friday calling for “severe fiscal discipline” by not announcing any major fresh projects and mooting steps to increase revenue, such as raising tax on the fair price of land by 10% and that on Indian-Made Foreign Liquor, priced above Rs400, by 200% and doubling the price of beer. The …

Kerala’s Model of Growth is far different from what it is advertised to be
7 years, 5 months ago

Kerala’s Model of Growth is far different from what it is advertised to be

Op India  

Enough of this “Kerala model of growth” which economist Amartya Sen has put his dubious stamp upon and with which Leftists louts thump their chests on an hourly basis. Kerala has no funds left in the state treasury for capital expenditure, Kerala’s governor P. Sathasivam had said last year. The state has about Rs 10,000 crore immediate liabilities to meet …

Kerala budget 2017: Laudable aims, grim fisc
8 years ago

Kerala budget 2017: Laudable aims, grim fisc

Deccan Chronicle  

This budget was the last one before the states lost their constitutional power to fix tax rates for purchase and sale of commodities. The budget thinks beyond the accounting concept of revenue deficit and considers revenue expenditure in social sector as an essential prerequisite of human capital formation, when physical capital formation is sought to be taken care of substantially …

Kerala: Revenue deficit stares hole through finances
8 years, 1 month ago

Kerala: Revenue deficit stares hole through finances

Deccan Chronicle  

The wish list put before the Finance Minister is quite long but the fiscal arithmetic looks grim. Kerala is a chronic revenue deficit State, with State's Own Revenue and Central devolution put together falling short of its Revenue Expenditure. To set the arithmetic right, Kerala's Own Tax Revenue has to reach at least 9.5 percent from the present 7 percent …

Budget 2017: A minimalist approach for an evolving India
8 years, 1 month ago

Budget 2017: A minimalist approach for an evolving India

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Instead of the single overarching economic document that was the norm in the past, this is the budget for the India of 2017, where finance minister Arun Jaitley has used the forum for making selective interventions where needed without meddling into areas that don’t need it. In tone and tenor, Budget 2017 is obviously aimed at the most …

Kochi Corporation budget to offer realistic proposals
9 years, 1 month ago

Kochi Corporation budget to offer realistic proposals

Deccan Chronicle  

KOCHI: Deputy mayor T.J Vinod will present the first budget of the new UDF council by the end of this month. Many of the projects announced over the years like new solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram, e-governance, Thammanam – Pullepady Road development, Atlantis rail over bridge, Vathuruthy RoB, modern slaughterhouse at Mattancherry, surface water drainage projects, septage plant at …

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