Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh, who holds the additional portfolio of department of finance, today presented the first supplementary demands of Rs 1387 crore for the current financial year.
This is the biggest supplementary budget presented by the state government so far in the state legislative assembly.
Being an election year and the last session of the assembly before the state goes to the polls in November, the BJP government has ensured to incorporate all the pending projects in the supplementary demands, which will come up for discussion in the House on Wednesday.
The demands have provisions for different schemes launched for the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and backward classes.
A large sum was to deal with the Naxalites in the state
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