Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday announced that since the code of conduct for elections will be in place in March, he would present the state budget in the first week of February.
“We will present the budget early,” he told reporters in Narasapura helipad in Haveri.
The state government is facing the challenge of ensuring implementation of five guarantee schemes and also to ensure that development also has enough funds. The BJP is alleging that the Congress government had destroyed the economy of the state by not focussing on generating revenue for the guarantee schemes.
Siddaramaiah, on the other hand, maintained that the state government had given Rs 2,000 compensation each for farmers in drought period temporarily.