Maharashtra Budget 2023: Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis presents Shinde govt's maiden Budget for FY24

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also holds state's finance portfolio, on Thursday presented the first Budget of the Eknath Shinde-led government for the year 2023-24 in the state Assembly.

Fadnavis started reading out the budgetary allocations in the Lower House of the state legislature at 2 pm. Ditching the conventional paper document, he read out the budgetary provisions from an iPad like Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

This is for the first time that Fadnavis presented the state budget as he holds the finance portfolio. During Fadnavis's tenure as the chief minister between 2014-19, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sudhir Mungantiwar was the finance minister.


The Shinde-led government, in which his faction of the Shiv Sena and the BJP share power, was formed in June 2022. During the budget presentation, Fadnavis said the outlay for farmers has been increased by Rs 6,900 crore and the coverage of the Mahatma Phule Jan Arogya scheme, a health insurance scheme of the government, has been raised from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.

State School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar read out the budget proposals in the Legislative Council.

(With inputs from PTI)