Mumbai, March 9 -- Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar will present the State Budget for 2025-26 on Monday, March 10, 2025. Notably, this will be the first budget for the newly-formed Mahayuti government and Pawar's 11th Budget as Finance Minister, a press release from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) said.

Pawar is a strict administrator in terms of financial discipline. He maintains a fine balance between people-friendly decisions and development decisions in the budget. His consistent success in ensuring funds for development projects and boosting infrastructure development has always been commendable, the release further added.

During the COVID-19 crisis, when several states faced financial difficulti...