Chhattisgadh Chief Minister Raman Singh presented the State Budget for Fiscal Year 2012-13

Chhattisgadh Chief Minister Raman Singh, who holds the additional portfolio of finance department, presented the state budget 2012-13 in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly on 25 March 2012. The plan outlay for 2012-13 is pegged at 20260 crore rupees.

Chhattisgarh government in a first in the country, allocated 60 crore rupees to launch a health insurance scheme that would leave no one living in the state uncovered.

The insurance cover would be provided to each family. The members in the family would get a free health care upto 30000 crore rupees. Nearly 5.62 million families in the state would be benefited with the scheme.

The budget estimates for the fiscal 2012-13 allocated 34 per cent of the total plan expenditure for tribal sub-plan and 11 per cent for the scheduled caste sub-plan area.

The allocation for the social sector, economic sector and general services makes up 41 per cent, 39 per cent and 20 per cent of total expenditure respectively. Social sector outlay includes 14.5 per cent for education, three per cent for health, 10 per cent for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe welfare and two per cent for drinking water.

The state government also announced to increase subsidy for energisation of irrigation pumps from 50000 to 70000 units, and state funded micro irrigation programme with provision of subsidy upto 75 per cent.