Telangana Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Monday introduced the Budget in the Assembly with an expenditure outlay of Rs 2,90,396 crore for 2023-24. The Finance Commission recommended a special grant of Rs.723 crore to Telangana and an amount of Rs 171 crore towards nutrition to ensure that the tax devolution should not be less than the amount of devolution …
The Budget comes at a time when the government faces a delicate balancing act between expenditure priorities and the need for fiscal prudence as it is the last full Budget before the general elections. There are five issues that need to be analysed in this Budget — three from a growth and fiscal stability perspective and two from a welfare …