Highlights of the First Telangana State Budget: A Budget with Heart & Vision: Rs. 6500 crore allotted for irrigation and command area development. Rs.2,282 crore for Health sector Rs. 940 crore for setting up model schools at mandal level. Technical education gets Rs. 212 crore. IIIT Basara gets Rs. 119 crore. Rs. 25 crore earmarked to provide improvised education from KG to PG. Rs. 1,317 crore earmarked for payment of pensions to aged and widows. Pension amount enhanced to Rs. 1,000 per month for aged and widows under the Asara pension scheme. Disabled to get Rs. 1,500 per month. Rs. 367 crore for disabled pensions. Rs. 1,003 crore for women and child welfare schemes. Rs. 1,000 crore earmarked for weaker section housing scheme comprising two bed room flats. Rs. 1,000 crore investment in TSGENCO under state plan. Rs. 3,241 crore allocated to energy sector, which includes Rs. 3000 crore in subsidy. To provide piped drinking date through a network of pipelines at a cost of Rs. 25,000 crore, Rs. 2,000 crore allocated this year. Rs. 400 crores for TSRTC for procuring 1000 new buses. Rs. 90 crore for sports stadium and modernisation of sports facilities across the state. Rs. 100 crore earmarked for Godavari pushkaralu. Govt announces Rs. 100 crore development plan for temple town of Yadagirigutta. Rs. 60 crore for infrastructure development in tourism destinations and circuits. Rs. 11 crore earmarked for Samskrutika Sarangi to spread awareness about government programmes through cultural artists. Telangana Kala Bhavan to come up in 11 acres near India Park in Hyderabad. Telangana kala Bhavan and kaloji cultural centre in warangal get Rs. 15 crore allocation. Corpus fund of Rs. 300 crore for Herita Haram scheme to raise 230 crore trees in next four years. Forest college gets 10 crore. Journalists in Telanagana to get health cards. Rs. 10 crore allotted for construction of Journalist Bhavan. All roads connecting Mandala headquarters to District headquarters to be made into double lane roads at a cost of Rs. 400 crore. Power loom weavers to get one lakh loan waiver. Rs. 19.30 crore incentive for SC entrepreneurs to set up industries. Land bank to be set up in five lakh acres For establishment of industries. Telangana industrial infrastructure corporation to overlook land allocation. Rs. 100 crore allocated for providing facilities in the land. Rs. 42 crore set apart for upgradation of 42 area hospitals in the state. Additional 40 crore budget to strengthen eye, mental, chest and ENT hospitals. Medical college buildings to get Rs. 152 crore. Gandhi and Osmania hospitals provided Rs. 100 crore each. Maternity hospital in Hyderabad to get Rs. 50 crore. Nil outré and King Koti hospitals given Rs. 30 crore and Rs. 25 crore each. Rs. 100 crore allocated for one time supply of LPG connections to poor women. Rs. 330 crore for Kalyanalaxmi scheme in which a newly-weded woman gets 51,000. Government earmarks Rs. 7,579 crore and Rs. 4,559 crore respectively for SC and ST sub plans. Rs. 2,022 crore for welfare backward classes. Rs. 1,030 crore for minorities welfare. Rs. 1000 crore earmarked for distributing land to landless SC families. Tribal sub plan raised 9.34 per cent amount to 4461 crore in the budget. Tribals hamlets to be upgraded to gram panchayats. Schemes to be formulated on the lines of ITDAs for tribals living in plain areas. Govt committed to provide Rs.50,000 crore for welfare of SCs in next five years. Social welfare department renamed as SC welfare department. Government allots 16.30 crore as incentive give to milk producers. Rs. 4 per litre incentive for those supplying milk to Vijaya Dairy, a govt-run dairy. Govt announces Rs. 20 crore power subsidy for poultry farmers. 1.5 lakh tonnes of maize supplied to poultry farmers at subsidised rates of Ra 10 per kg. Government to give 100 per cent subsidy to SC/ ST farmers, 90 per cent to small and marginal farmers 80 per cent to others for setting up drip irrigation projects. Rs. 250 crore allocated for this purpose. Green house farming to be promoted in 1000 acres around Hyderabad in pilot basis to cultivate exotic and unseasonal vegetables at a cost of Rs. 200 crore. Government to extend 75 per cent subsidy to set up green houses. Rs. 100 crore allocated for farm mechanisation. Rs. 20 crore earmarked for crop colonies and soil testing. Rs. 10 crore for farm field schools. Government to release Rs.480 crore for input subsidy dues to farming community. Rs. 1,150 crore released for red jowar seed growers farmers in Nizamabad. Government allocates Rs. 4,250 crore for farmer debt waiver scheme. Loans up to Rs. 1 lakh per family being waived. Government focussed on water and drinking Water projects, says Mr. Rajendar. Ten per cent of water in irrigation projects to be used for drinking water purposes. Constituency development programme fund increased from Rs. 1 crore to Rs. 1.5 crore. Rs. 234 crore allocated for this purpose.
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