Mop up for loan waiver, 7th pay spend key hurdles to Yogi's maiden budget

These two expenditures alone add up to Rs 70,000 cr; GST could provide some relief

After a chequered period of first 100 days in office, the incumbent Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is set to table its maiden Budget in the state assembly on Tuesday.

Recently, during a public programme, Yogi said UP needed a budget of almost Rs 10,00,000 crore rather than just Rs 4,00,000 crore for composite development.

Last year, the UP Annual Budget 2016-17 presented by former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav was to the tune of Rs 3,46,935 crore. Its size was 14.60 per cent bigger than the Annual Budget for 2015-16 of Rs 3,02,687 crore.

On December 12, Yadav, in