State Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar has started to present the budget for the financial year 2018-2019 in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Mungantiwar believes that this year's budget will be in the farmer's interest.
A month back, Mumbai's corporation budget was presented by Ajoy Mehta, which focused on improving the education scenario and the infrastructure in the city.
Here are the updates from Maharashtra Budget
- Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantivar announces his fourth state budget session
- Rs. 300 Cr will be spent on Shivaji Maharaj memorial, tender finalised
- Rs. 150 Cr will be spent on proposed Babasaheb Ambedkar memorial
- A runway work on Navi Mumbai Airport will be completed by December 2019
- The estimated production of foodgrains in the year 2017-18 might go up to Rs. 93,283 tonnes
- Rs 100 crore set aside to promote organic farming
- The state to spend Rs. 17 Cr on Mumbai Trans Harbour Link project
- The state grants Rs. 100 crores for small scale industries
- The state drafts a special policy to increase women entrepreneurs in the state from 9 per cent to 20 per cent
- The state to use Rs. 40 Cr for reconstruction of 609 ST buses
- There is a need to increase the job opportunities for graduates and hence, career guidance cell will be launched every district. Rs. 50 Cr will be spent for the same
- Special provisions will be made for schools wherein 100 schools across the state will be re-built to international standards
- In order to make the information available of noted personalities such as Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, Annabhau Sathe and Shivaji Maharaj on a click, the state will invest Rs. 4 Cr in creating websites of the same
- State to provide 80 per cent grant to those seeking international patents, up to Rs10 lakh, and national patents up to Rs 2 lakh, as part of its start-up policy
- The state gives a nod to 266-km long Metro route. The project is said to be completed in coming 3-4 years benefiting 67 lakh Mumbaikars
- 64% of the land acquisition process done for the state’s ambitious Mumbai-Nagpur Superexpress Way i.e. the Samruddhi Highway. The project work to start in April 2018
- The state approves Versova-Bandra Sea Link
- 23 coastal projects sanctioned, Bhaucha Dhakka to Mandwa project to kick-off in April 2018
- Rs. 13,385 crore budget allocated for home department. Of this, Rs 165 crore set aside for state-wide CCTV surveillance network
- Under Swachh Maharashtra initiative,6.33 lakh public toilet blocks will be constructed in urban areas and 21.03 lakh blocks in rural areas
- Rs 65 Cr to be spent on poor pregnant women. Every pregnant woman to receive Rs. 5,000 until last month of their pregnancy
- The state to set up National Snake Venom Research Institute at Haffkine Institute, Mumbai
- For better tracking of crimes and criminals, Rs. 25 crore earmarked for Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS)
- Mobile stalls will be given to physically challenged people for free for their livelihood
- To promote underwater tourism at Vengurla, Sindhudurg, the state to use India’s first battery-operated submarine
- Government also aims to plant 50 Cr trees over the next two years
- The state to spent Rs 79 Cr on a development plan for Ganpatipule temple in Ratnagiri
- The government to establish Maharashtra State Autorickshaw Welfare Corporation for the welfare of the state’s 20 lakh auto-rickshaw drivers
The state employees to get seventh pay commission. The report is being prepared of the same and the same will be implemented soon