New Delhi: The new BJP Government has planned to present another vote-on-account before coming up with the full budget for 2024-25.
This was informed by Deputy Chief Minister K V Singh Deo today while speaking to the Media here. Shri Singh Deo is in New Delhi to attend State Finance Ministers’ meeting on Central Budget for 2024-25 and GST Council meeting.
The Deputy CM said the previous Government had presented the vote on an account which will manage State finance till July. “We have to present another vote on the bill and then we will go for a full budget,” he said.
He further informed that the State Government will prepare its full fledged budget only after the Central budget is tabled in the Parliament. “We have to consider the allocations and funds made by the Centre in the budget before preparing our budget,” Shri Singh Deo said.
He said that Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has asked him to attend the pre-budget and GST Council meeting. Since the Chief Minister would remain busy with the arrangements for the celebration of Snan Purnima in Puri, he could not attend the meeting, he added.
When asked about the State’s demand to be raised at the meeting, the Deputy CM said he would disclose it to the Media only after attending the meeting. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already committed to make Odisha Number One state in five years.
The interim budget was presented with estimating the total budget outlay for the next financial year at Rs 2.55 lakh crore, which is about 11 percent more than the annual budget of 2023-24.
As the BJP Government has come to power for the first time in Odisha and it will present its first budget in the Assembly next month, the State will come up with a comprehensive and people-oriented budget.