Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who can also be the state Finance Minister, on Thursday offered the Eknath Shinde-led authorities‘s first Budget for the yr 2023-24 within the state Assembly. Fadnavis began studying out the budgetary allocations within the Lower House of the state legislature at 2 pm. He learn out the budgetary provisions from an iPad as a substitute of a traditional paper doc.
This is for the primary time that Fadnavis offered the state funds as he holds the finance portfolio. During Fadnavis’s tenure because the chief minister between 2014-19, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Sudhir Mungantiwar was the finance minister.
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The Shinde-led authorities, during which his faction of the Shiv Sena and the BJP share energy, was fashioned in June 2022. During the funds presentation, Fadnavis mentioned the outlay for farmers has been elevated by Rs 6,900 crore and the protection of the Mahatma Phule Jan Arogya scheme, a medical insurance scheme of the federal government, has been raised from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.
State School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar learn out the funds proposals within the Legislative Council.
