STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The State Budget will be tabled in the Assam Assembly at 2 pm on Friday. It will be the last full-fledged Budget being presented in the Assembly before the term of the BJP-led government expires in 2021. The Budget will be in the electronic format for the second consecutive year. Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday asserted that the State Budget for the year 2020-21 will touch all kinds of people and pave a new way of progress for Assam.
He said that the Budget will be a boon for 30 to 40 lakh families and it will include such schemes that will take the State into a new path of progress. He also stated that the budget will touch children, women, physically and mentally challenged ones, senior citizens and all other people. “The Budget will have some dreams. But the dreams will be realistic and achievable,” the Minister said.
Sarma said as per the latest report of the Accountant General the annual public expenditures of the State has touched Rs 73,000 crore which is a good sign for the economy. He pointed out that the figure was Rs 42,000 crore in the first year of the BJP-led government’s tenure.