New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- Despite the inflating non-plan expenditure, Uttarakhand Finance Minister Prakash Pant will present the state budget for the 2019-20 fiscal on February 11 with a focus on agriculture and allied sectors with a challenge to keep revenue and fiscal deficits under the prescribed limits.
"We are trying our best to maintain a balance in the budget. We are committed to the welfare of our farmers and will make provisions in the budget to provide them with extra income," said Pant, who will present his second straight budget in the state Assembly here.
Pant said he would make provisions so that farmers start getting Rs 6,000 as per the goal set by the Central government in the Interim Budget on February 1. "We are committed to ...