Bhubaneswar: Odisha Finance Minister Bikram Keshari Arukha today presented Odisha Interim Budget 2024 of Rs 1,18,000 Crore for the 2024-25 financial year.
Arukha presented a welfare, growth, development and investment-oriented Annual Budget (Vote-on-Account) in the Odisha Legislative Assembly with an outlay of Rs 2,55,000 crore, which is about 11% more than the Annual Budget, 2023-24.
The term of the 16th Assembly will expire within a few months and General Elections will be held. The Model Code of Conduct for General Elections will come into force after announcement by the Election Commission of India. Customarily, the new Government has the prerogative to formulate new programmes and schemes.
Accordingly, instead of presenting a full‐fledged budget a Vote‐on‐Account Budget has been presented to enable the Government to incur expenditure for the first four months of the financial year 2024‐25 on existing establishment and on‐going schemes and projects.
Here’s complete list of department-wise allocation:
- Home department: Rs 8641.27 Crore
- General Administration PG (GA): Rs 695.72 Crore
- Revenue and Disaster Management (Revenue) Rs 1751.44 Crore
- Law: Rs 915.42 Crore
- Finance: Rs 66321.89 Crore
- Commerce: Rs 195.89 Crore
- Works: Rs 10950.00 Crore
- Odisha Legislative Assembly: Rs 85.98 Crore
- Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare: Rs 13,7.75 Crore
- School and Mass Education: Rs 24764.28 Crore
- ST & SC Development, Minorities & Backward Classes: Rs 5544.18 Crore
- Health and Family Welfare: Rs 19729.33 Crore
- Housing and Urban Development: Rs 9868.38 Crore
- Labour & Employees State Insurance: Rs 310.22 Crore
- Sports and Youth Services: Rs 1304.95 Crore
- Planning and Convergence: Rs 12043.44 Crore
- Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water: Rs 22543.33 Crore
- PG & PA: Rs 2.80 Crore
- Industries: Rs 807.63 Crore
- Water Resources: Rs 13267.40 Crore
- Transport: Rs 3096.92 Crore
- Forest and environment & Climate Change: Rs 1219.31 Crore
- Agriculture & Farmer’s Empowerment: Rs 7923.87 Crore
- Steel and Mines: Rs 464.46 Crore
- Information and Public Relations: Rs 145.80 Crore
- Excise: Rs 230.22 Crore
- Science and Technology: Rs 126.06 Crore
- Rural Development: Rs 9330.00 Crore
- Parliamentary Affairs: Rs 85.04 Crore
- Energy: Rs 3351.72 Crore
- Handlooms, Textile & Handicrafts: Rs 261 Crore
- Tourism: Rs 817 Crore
- Fisheries and ARD: Rs 1937.65 Crore
- Co-operation: Rs 2107.99 Crore
- Public Enterprises: Rs 11.54 Crore
- Women and Child Development: Rs 5015.15 Crore
- E & Information Technology: Rs 373.60 Crore
- Higher Education: Rs 3469.83 Crore
- Skill Development and Technical Education: Rs 1582.76
- Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Department: Rs 747 Crore
- Development of Social Security & Empowerment of Persons with Disability: 4698.90 Crore
- Revenue and Disaster Management: Rs 3970.29 Crore
- Odia Language, Literature and Culture: Rs 219.82
- Mission Shakti: Rs 2760.81 Crore
Ms Kalinga