Sri Lanka, Feb. 17 -- President Anura Kumara Dissanayake presented the 2025 budget to Parliament today (17). According to the summary of estimates, the total income and receipts for the year are recorded at Rs. 4,990 billion, while total expenditure stands at Rs. 7,190 billion.

As a result, the budget deficit for 2025 is Rs. 2,200 billion.

Expenditure Proposals - 2025 (in Rs. Million)

Salary increase - 110,000

Sri Lanka Airlines (SLA) legacy debts settlement - 20,000

Senior Citizens interest subsidy programme - 15,000

Pension revisions - 10,000

New staff recruitments - 10,000

Improvement of road network in Northern area - 5,000

Clean Sri Lanka programme - 5,000

Food security (for maintaining paddy buffer stocks) - 5,000

Renovat...