Tamil Nadu budget 2019-20: Highlights
- 9,975 personnel will be recruited this year for Uniformed Services.
- Rs 491 crore has been allocated for free dhoti and saree scheme.
- Rs 1,170 crore has been allocated for handlooms.
- Rs 8,118 crore has been allocated as power subsidy for consumers.
- Transport Department has been allocated Rs 1,298 crore, Family Welfare Department
- Essential diagnostics will be made available at all government hospitals.
- State Government to establish a new government arts and science college in Rameswaram in 2019-2020, which will be named after APJ Abdul Kalam.
- Rs 1,656 crore has been allocated for school education, laptop scheme to get Rs 1,072 crore.
- Rs 1,558 crore allocated for Rural Drinking Water schemes.
- Cyclone Gaja relief placed at Rs 2,361 crore.
- Rs 420 crore has been allocated for building 20,000 green houses.
- Rs 100 crore has been allocated for Anna Varsity infrastructure upgrades.
- Rs 18,274 crore has been allocated for Rural development.
- Rs 726 crore has been allocated for construction railway over bridges.
- Housing department to be allocated Rs 6,265 crore.
- 20,000 green houses to be constructed in 2019-20.
- Irrigation dept to get Rs 5,984 crore, veterinary dept to get Rs 1,252 crore.
- Poverty alleviation department to get Rs 1,031 crore, fisheries dept allocated Rs 928 crore.
- Housing and Urban development to get around Rs 6,250 crore, agriculture allocation to be at Rs 10,550 crore.
- Rs 12,563.83 crore has been allocated to health sector, energy sector gets Rs 18,560 crore.
- 2,000 solar agri pump sets to be distributed in 2019-20.
- French food processing to set up an integrated industrial park near Chennai at an investment of Rs 2,000 crore.
- Smart parking lots to be created across Chennai at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore.
- Rs 172 crore has been allocated for rural industries.
- Rs 100 crore has been allocated for new and innovative development projects.
- Rs 200 crore has been allocated for sugarcane farmers.
- Highways and small ports has been allotted Rs 13,605.
- Rs 1,000 crore has been allocated for Atthikadavu Avinashi integrated drinking water project
- Floating solar projects planned at a cost of Rs 1,150 crore in Theni, Salem and Erode districts.
- 500 battery buses will ply in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai in the first phase.
- TN govt estimates tax revenue to increase by 14 per cent in 2019-20.
- Rs 28,757 crore has been allocated to education department.
- 2,000 battery run buses will be purchased with German aid.
- Rs 116 crore has been allocated for groynes in Kanyakumari district.
- 38,000 dwelling units to be constructed for people living by riverside in Chennai.
- Tamil Nadu borrowed around Rs 44,000 crore in 2018-19, state will borrow Rs 43,000 crore in 2019-20.
- Rs 18,700 crore has been allocated for Municipal Administration and Water board.
- A frozen semen station for animals will be set up at a cost of Rs 100 crore.
- Rs 1252.41 crore has been allocated for animal husbandry and Rs 258.45 crore towards dairy.
- Revenue is expected to grow by 14 per cent.
- Rs 172.06 crore has been allocated towards farm mechanization.
- State economic growth is estimated at 8.1 per cent.
- Rs 100 crore has been allocated for horticulture.
- Rs 10,000 crore has been set aside for offering farm loans.
- Rs 300 crore has been allocated for desilting of lakes in the state.
- Rs 621.59 crore has been allocated towards crop insurance scheme.
- Per capita income in Tamil Nadu has increased to Rs 1,42,267 per annum.
- Rs 250 crore has been set aside for payment of premium under accident cum life insurance scheme.
- Rs 3,958 crore has been allocated towards social security pension.
- Revenue for the financial year 2019-20 is estimated to be at Rs 1,97,721 crore.
- Gaja cyclone relief: 1 lakh houses at a cost of Rs 980 crore to be built.
- Expenditure is estimated to be at Rs 2,08,671 crore.
- Fiscal deficit for 2019-20 will be Rs 44,176 crore which is 2.56 per cent of the GSDP.
- Comprehensive integrated parking management project in Chennai will be set up at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore.
- Revenue deficit expected to be Rs 14,315 crore against Rs 1,919 crore due to better revenue receipts.
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