K Chandrasekhar Rao the Chief Minister said that budget should concentrate on working out modalities and ways and means for increasing the growth. For this we should know what are the ways and means that help us in our economic growth should be taken into account.
KCR said that “having been elected as CM I have been thinking what best I can do to the people. Preparation of budget should be preceded only after abundant clarity but not in a hurry. The process should also begin only after the people who matter in preparation makes up their mindset.
We should work out our advantages, disadvantages, strengths, weaknesses and the socio-economic pattern. We should have a clear assessment of what all money we are likely to get in the next five years and how we are going to spend”.
CM citing the examples of different areas for working out budget proposals, first mentioned about the water resource followed by other departments. He said while preparing the budget estimates for irrigation, it should be taken into consideration about the money government spent during the past four years and likely to spend this year as well as during coming five years which all put together may work out to Rs 2 lakh Crore.
CM mentioned that for all irrigation projects all types of clearances from Government of India have been obtained which is a great achievement and this should reflect in budget. CM asked the officials to work out modalities for modernization of agriculture including research facilities in university. Budget should also take into consideration as to the concept of food processing units could be taken forward.
