Telangana Budget 2017: Highlights

Here are the highlights from his budget speech.

- Mission Bhagiratha, the piped drinking water programme gets Rs 3000 crore.
- The revised estimates of 2016-17 budget expenditure was 86.02% or Rs 112191.07 crore.
- Information technology department gets Rs 252.89 crore in the budget.
- Expenditure in schemes pegged at Rs 88038.80 crore.
- Revenue surplus is of Rs 4571.30 core and fiscal deficit of Rs 26096.31 crore.
- Total budget size is Rs 149646 crore. Estimated committed expenditure is of Rs 61607.20 crore.
- Irrigation continues to be priority area for the state. To get Rs 25000 crore this year too.
- Revenue expenditure pegged at Rs 50954.61 crore.
- Rs 4000 crore set aside towards payment of fourth and final instalment to banks towards the Rs 17000 crore farm loan waiver scheme.
- Agriculture and allied sectors to get Rs 46946.98 crore.
- Finance minister Eatela Rajendar says 19.61 per cent growth rate achieved.
- SC, ST welfare funds unspent to be carried forward to this year's budget. Funds for SC, ST welfare based on population ratio.
- The state cabinet on Sunday met at Pragati Bhavan and approved the annual budget for 2017-18 with proposals worth over Rs 1.46 lakh crore.
- The cabinet discussed allocations for Mission Bhagiratha, Mission Kakatiya, double bedroom houses, KG to PG free education and electricity for all programmes.

- Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said the budget will be pro-poor and pro-backward castes, the chief minister said in the cabinet meeting.