{"id":56037,"date":"2024-03-05T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/?p=56037"},"modified":"2024-03-05T16:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:20:06","slug":"the-punjab-finance-minister-has-unveiled-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/the-punjab-finance-minister-has-unveiled-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"The Punjab Finance Minister has unveiled a budget of \u20b92.04 lakh crore for the fiscal year 2024-25."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chandigarh, 5 march (press ki taquat bureau):\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Punjab&#8217;s finance minister, Harpal Singh Cheema, unveiled a budget of \u20b92,04,918 crore for the fiscal year 2024-25. The revenue receipts are estimated at \u20b91,03,936 crore, with own tax revenue contributing \u20b958,900 crore and non-OTR at \u20b911,246 crore. Central taxes share is set at \u20b922,041 crore, and grant-in-aid from the Centre at \u20b911,748 crore. The revenue expenditure for 2024-25 is projected to be \u20b91,27,134 crore.<\/p>\n<p>The outstanding debt is expected to reach \u20b93,74,091 crore by the end of FY25, up from \u20b93,43,626 crore in the previous year. Cheema allocated \u20b913,784 crore for the agriculture sector and \u20b916,987 crore for education in his third consecutive budget presentation.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed Malwa canal project aims to reduce groundwater dependency and optimize Punjab&#8217;s share of Beas-Sutlej river water during the Rabi period, covering approximately 1.78 lakh acres in Bathinda, Faridkot, Ferozepur, and Muktsar districts. Additionally, \u20b9575 crore is allocated for crop diversification schemes, with a significant focus on supporting farmers through power subsidies and soil-water conservation initiatives totaling \u20b99,330 crore and \u20b9194 crore, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, 5 march (press ki taquat bureau):\u00a0 \u00a0Punjab&#8217;s finance minister, Harpal Singh Cheema, unveiled a budget of \u20b92,04,918 crore for the fiscal year 2024-25. The revenue receipts are estimated at \u20b91,03,936 crore, with own tax revenue contributing \u20b958,900 crore and non-OTR at \u20b911,246 crore. Central taxes share is set at \u20b922,041 crore, and grant-in-aid from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,10243,20,9919],"tags":[32197],"class_list":["post-56037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-chandigarh","category-india","category-politics","tag-presskitaquat-latestnews-topnews-budgetsession-fiscalyear-harpalsingh-cheema-punjabsfinanceminister-todaybudget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56039,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56037\/revisions\/56039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}