Chhattisgarh budget: CM focuses on youth, infrastructure and industry

Chief minister Raman Singh laid thrust on youths, infrastructure and industry while presenting the state budget for 2015-16 in the state assembly on Friday.

Singh, who is also in-charge of finance portfolio, presented the budget estimate of Rs 65,013 crore, which is ?an increase of 18 % over the previous year revised expenditure estimates.

A major highlight of the budget is the introduction of a separate ‘youth budget’, which brings into sharp focus the public investment in schemes that directly relate to the state’s youth. Chhattisgarh is the first state to do so and Rs 6151 crore have been allocated for youth, which is 16 % of the state plan outlay.