Chhattisgarh annual budget to be presented Feb 9

July 6th, 2009 RAIPUR/NEW DELHI - Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Monday termed the union budget as "anti-poor" and aimed to serve the Congress party's "political interests". Singh, who is in New Delhi, told reporters that the budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament "is anti-poor.

July 3rd, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has said the rail budget for the current fiscal presented in parliament Friday is "disappointing" as it offered nothing but three new trains to the mineral rich state. Durg-Jaipur, Bilaspur-Hyderabad and Ambikapur-Jabalpur are the three new trains the state has got in the budget presented by Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The next session of Parliament will begin from today. The Economic Survey will be presented in the Lok Sabha today.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said that the government was looking forward to the Budget session of the Parliament with great expectation.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the railway budget would be a "pro-people" budget. "It will be a pro-people budget, a simple budget, people's budget," Banerjee said after an all-party meeting here.

June 19th, 2009 New Delhi, June 19 (ANI): Union Food Processing Minister Subodh Kant Sahay and Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ahead of the general budget, which is to be presented on July 6. As part of the pre-budget exercise, Mukherjee held parleys with various stakeholders, state finance ministers, industrialist groups, leading economists, trade unionists and top officials of various financial institutions.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee held pre-budget discussions with leaders of Congress party ahead of the budget for full fiscal year 2009/10 (April-March) that would be presented on July 6. "As a party man I have an obligation to listen to the views of my party leaders.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Union Cabinet on Monday decided to hold the Budget session from July 2 to 7 while the General Budget will be presented on July 6. It was also decided that the Economy Survey would be presented on July 2.

February 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Reacting to criticisms over lack of measures in the interim budget presented Monday, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said in an election year, an incumbent government had the mandate only to present a vote on account. 'I think this is a failure to understand the limitations of an interim budget,' Ahluwalia said, soon after industry and average citizens complained that the interim budget tabled in parliament by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee had no specific measures on tax rates or to help cushion the impact of global slowdown.

February 12th, 2009 RAIPUR - The interim railway budget presented Friday by Railways Minister Lalu Prasad has let down expectations of Chhattisgarh despite the fact that the state generates high revenue for the railways, Chief minister Raman Singh said here. 'The interim rail budget is disappointing, it has let down expectations of millions of people of Chhattisgarh,' said Singh in his reaction to the interim budget.

February 12th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - After having been a revenue surplus state for nearly four years, Haryana has once again become a revenue deficit state, after the new budget for 2009-10 was presented to the state assembly Friday. Finance Minister Birender Singh said the revenue deficit in 2009-10 will be Rs.33.84 billion.

February 8th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh's Bharatiya Janata Party government Monday presented a Rs.222.11 billion (Rs. 22,211 crore) budget which levies no new taxes for the 2009-10 fiscal.

February 8th, 2009 RAIPUR - The Bharatiya Janata Party Monday presented a Rs.222.11 billion budget which levies no new taxes for the fiscal 2009-10. The budget has a deficit component of Rs.11.85 billion.

February 8th, 2009 RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh government Monday allocated Rs.9.41 billion (Rs.941 crore), a hike of 22 percent from last year's allocations, for the police force to counter Leftist insurgency in the state. Chief Minister Raman Singh, who also holds the finance portfolio, presented a Rs.222.11 billion budget that levies no new taxes for the fiscal 2009-10.

December 31st, 2008 RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh government Thursday announced that it has split the state electricity board into five entities - one holding company and four others to manage transmission, distribution, production and trading. The new companies are - Chhattisgarh State Power Transmission Co.