AP CM Chandrababu Decided To Hike Unemployment Allowance From Thousand To Two Thousand Top Telugu TV



AMARAVATI: In an election eve vote-on-account budget for 2019-20, the Chandrababu Naidu government in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday announced an economic support scheme for farmers and doubled the unemployment pension to Rs 2,000.

With the state elections due in three months, Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu presented the Rs 2.26 lakh crore vote-on-account budget, an 18.38 per cent increase over the current year, in the assembly. He pegged down the revenue deficit to Rs 2,099 crore as against Rs 2,494 crore in the revised estimates.

The highlight of the budget is the allocation of Rs 5,000 crore for Annadaata Sukhibhava scheme primarily intended to provide economic support (input grant) to farmers, akin to the one announced in the union budget on February 1..