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Monday, Jun 16, 2025
On May 27, Kerala's finance minister K N Balagopal said the Centre had slashed Kerala's open market borrowing for the 2023-24 fiscal by more than half.
A total of 2,21,871 claims worth Rs 576.94 crore has been received under the Medisep scheme in just eight months, the minister said, adding that the amount is being disbursed quickly.
The details that Finance Minister K N Balagopal presented in the Legislative Assembly the other day prove that his earlier Budget announcement that Rs 750 crore would be collected through was incorrect.
Congress's Angamaly MLA Roji M John issued notice for the motion.
Instead of speaking of Kerala's IGST claims, about which UDF's Kollam MP N K Premachandran had asked in Parliament, Sitharaman spoke of GST compensation.
The CPM senior leadership has decided that any change in the government’s budget decisions need not seem like giving in to the pressure from the Opposition.
The Chief Minister also picked out figures from budget documents to show that Kerala's debt position was getting better and that its revenues were on an upswing.
The minister said the state cannot move forward without increasing taxes and that tax reforms are necessary for the security of more than 60 lakh families and the progress of Kerala.
The final installments of both pension and DA were supposed to be paid in August 2021 and November 2021.
Diesel prices are higher in Andhra Pradesh and Telengana, but the two-rupee cess will make Kerala's diesel rate of 98.52 a litre, the highest in the country.
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