Hyderabad: The proposed budget for the financial year, 2018-19 is important as General Elections are likely to be held next year.
Govt. decided to enhance the budget extraordinarily. A meeting of the officials of the Dept. of Finance, Dept. Minorities Welfare and other institutions were held on Saturday. Present at the meeting were, Mr. Rama Krishna and Mr. Shiv Shanker, Secretaries of the Dept. of Finance, Mr. Dana Kishore, Secretary of the Dept. of Minorities Welfare and other officials.
According to the details, Rs. 2582 crore has been proposed in the budget.
| Scheme | Budget |
| Fee Reimbursement | Rs. 300 cr. |
| Overseas Scholarship | Rs. 100 cr. |
| Pre-matric Scholarship | Rs. 30 cr. |
| Bank linked subsidy | Rs. 347 cr. |
| Shaadi Mubarak | Rs. 300 cr. |
| Wakf Board | Rs. 235 cr. |
| Urdu Academy | Rs. 45.2 cr. |
| Makkah Masjid, Shahi Masjid | Rs. 10 cr. |
| Training and employment | Rs. 35.2 cr. |
| Coaching in study circles | Rs. 15.55 cr. |
| Haj committe | Rs. 5 cr. |
| Iftaar, Christmas | Rs. 72 cr. |
| Dairatul Maarif | Rs. 5.5 cr. |
| Urdu Academy (Salaries) | Rs. 2 cr. |
| T- Prime etc | Rs. 25 cr. |
| Wakf’s Survey | Rs. 1 cr. |
| Sikh Bhavan | Rs. 5.25 cr. |
| Christian Bhavan | Rs. 22 cr. |
| Minorities Survey | Rs. 6.76 cr. |
It may be mentioned that during the current financial year, Rs. 1050 crore were released whereas only Rs. 660 crore. were spent against the allocated budget of Rs. 1226 crore.