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

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