Tag: Odisha Budget

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today sought suggestions from various sections of society for preparing the annual budget 2018-19. The Finance Department has asked different stakeholders including general public, civil society organisations, think tanks and other advocacy groups to suggest inputs for preparation of annual Budget 2018-19 through a separate web portal budget.odisha.gov.in. Suggestions can be […]

Bhubaneswar: Finance department has come up with some supplementary instructions for formulation of revised estimates for 2017-18 and budget estimates for 2018-19 financial year. In a letter, Principal Secretary TK Pandey has directed all departments to submit the budget estimates to the Planning and Convergence department by December 5. Official sources said that the budget […]

Bhubaneswar: The State government on Thursday approved a supplementary budget of Rs 12,768 crore which will be presented during the upcoming session of the Odisha Assembly beginning September 4. The budget was approved during a meeting of the Council of Ministers headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat here. Provisions for different […]

Bhubaneswar: While the State Assembly will meet from February 4 to pass the Interim Budget for 2019-20, the Naba Nirman Krushak Sangathan (NNKS) has threatened to go on an indefinite strike if the government fails to announce provisions in the budget for the Odisha farmers. Similar to the protests carried out in October-November last year, […]

Bhubaneswar: All eyes are on the State Budget which will be presented by Finance Minister Sashi Bhusan Behera on February 7. Talks are doing rounds on what populist measures the State could take in the budget to woo voters as general polls are only a few months away. Sources said as the State government has […]

Bhubaneswar: Around three lakh farmers under the aegis of Naba Nirman Krushak Sangathan (NNKS) will hit the streets of Bhubaneswar today to pressurise the government to fulfil their long-standing demands of price, pension and prestige. With the Assembly Budget Session underway, NNKS national convenor Akshay Kumar had threatened to go on an indefinite strike if […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will present the full-fledged budget for 2019-20 in the State Assembly tomorrow. The council of ministers headed by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik had earlier approved the draft budget allocation for around Rs 1.39 lakh crore. All eyes are now on the upcoming budget and the focus areas of Odisha […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari on Friday presented the 2019-20 State budget of Rs 1.39 lakh crore, with special focus on agriculture – the allocation for which has increased to Rs 20,714 crore. The total administrative expenditure has been projected at Rs 57,310 crore including Rs 25,500 crore for salaries, Rs 13,300 crore for […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is more likely to rely on central assistance and debts to meet its allocation for all the budgetary provisions this year. This is what experts have to say, a day after presentation of the annual State budget for 2018-19 financial year. According to experts, while the per capita distribution of loan […]

Bhubaneswar: When Odisha police have been the lab for experimenting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s pet 5T governance model, the massive Rs 8,261 crore supplement budget did little justice to the police department. Consider this. The police budget in the year 2019-10 budget has been pegged at around Rs 3,571 crore, which is a measly 2.5 […]

Bhubaneswar: Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari on Tuesday presented the State budget 2020-21 in Odisha Assembly. This is for the first time that Odisha switched to digital method to reduce printing of documents for the budget. Over 700 big trees were saved in the State’s bid to present a paperless budget. Pujari claimed that the overall […]

Bhubaneswar: While presenting the State budget 2020-21 in Odisha Assembly on Tuesday, Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari also introduced the Climate Budget which aims to keep track of the government expenditure made for climate change or to support mitigation and adaption actions to address climate change. The Finance minister said, “We propose to introduce a document […]

Bhubaneswar: The budget session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly will commence on February 18 and continue till April 9, 2021. The annual budget for 2021-22 will be tabled by State Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari on February 22. As per a notification issued on Monday, the budget session this year, which will begin with the Governor […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari on Monday presented the annual budget in the State Assembly for 2021-22 financial year with an outlay of Rs 1.7 lakh crore, an increase of around 13 per cent compared to the previous fiscal. “We propose a larger budgetary outlay of Rs 1,70,000 crore for 2021-22 which includes an […]