Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah presents the last budget of his current tenure today.
Highlights
- More air quality monitoring stations to be set up in Karnataka to combat pollution
- Massive afforestation programme to be taken up along banks of rivers in the state: Siddaramaiah
- A vented dam under Paschimavahini scheme to be built in Dakshina Kannada district: Siddaramaiah
- CM Siddaramaiah announces Rs 2500 crore package for Bengaluru
- Mukhyamantri Anila Bhagya Yojane or free gas connection project of state government to see twin burner stove and two refills for 30 lakh beneficiaries
- Government to setup Karnataka Sports University under PPP model
- Incentive of Rs 3 lakh for a SC boy marrying a girl from any other caste and Rs 5 lakh for a Scheduled Caste girl marrying a boy from another caste
- 25% reservation announced for backward classes and minority students in SC/ST post-matric hostels
- Incentive of Rs 5 lakh for girl child of devadasi and Rs 3 lakh for male child of devadasi as marriage assistance announced
- Additional 1000-bed ward announced for Bangalore Medical College
- Arogya Karnataka Yojane or universal health scheme to be launched in February
- CCTV cameras to be installed at all government schools in a phased manner for safety of students
- Farm loan waiver to the tune of Rs 1 lakh from cooperative banks after the death of the farmer announced
- CM announces loans to the tune of Rs 50000 at 0% interest for women and fishermen
- 5.9 lakh government employees and nearly equal number of pensioners to benefit from wage revision, it will cast additional burden of Rs 10508 crore on exchequer
- Demonetisation has hurt states finances: CM Siddaramaiah
- CM announces ‘Raitha Belaku’ scheme to benefit 70 lakh dry land farmers with Rs 5000 per hectare up to a maximum of Rs 10000
- Today no one sleeps hungry in Karnataka, ours is a pro-farmer govt: Siddaramaiah
- I am not an economist, but political experience of over 40 years has proved that even a farmer’s son can undertake this onerous task: Siddaramaiah
- CM Siddaramaiah starts presenting budget for 2018-19
- Siddaramaiah will be only the second chief minister in the state to complete a full five-year term – four decades after Devaraj Urs (1972-78)
- Siddaramaiah, 69, has presented 12 budgets so far including five as chief minister since 2013
Highlights of the 2017-18
- Rs 1.9 lakh crore outlay
- Increase in VAT on wine, beer and hard liquor
- Rice quota under Anna Bhagya scheme increased from 5kg to 7kg
- Bengaluru Dr BR Ambedkar School of Economics (BASE) on the lines of London School of Economics to be established
- Namma canteen to serve breakfast for Rs 5 and lunch for Rs 10 and Saviruchi Mobile Canteens in all 30 districts through Zilla Stree Shakthi associations
- New free LPG service scheme for 5 lakh poor families not covered under the Ujjvala scheme announced
- Five super-specialty hospitals proposed in Davanagere, Ramanagara, Tumakuru, Vijayapura and Kolar for cancer and heart ailment treatment
- Shoes, socks, churidars for girl students from Class 8 to 10, spectacles and story books with social message proposed for school children
- Free laptops for 1st year engineering, medical, polytechnic and first grade colleges proposed
