Annual budget for 2021-22 presented in AP Assembly
The Hindu
It showed a fiscal deficit of ₹37,029.79 crore
Finance Minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy presented the annual budget for FY 2021-22 in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday with an expenditure of ₹2,29,779.27 crore and revenue expenditure estimated at ₹1,82,196.54 crore. The capital expenditure including loan repayments and other capital disbursements have been pegged around ₹47,582.73 crore. The estimated revenue and fiscal deficits are ₹5,000.05 crore and ₹37,029.79 crore. They account for 0.47% and 3.49% of the GSDP respectively.A group of 13 men from Dakshin Datta Para village in Nadia district, West Bengal, busy transplanting paddy has been catching the eye of many in Mayildathurai district in recent days. A video clip of the Bengali migrant agricultural workers Singing Hindi and Bengali songs while planting paddy at Nallathukudi village here has gone viral.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.