Budget would help take forward devpt agenda: Pinarayi Vijayan

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the proposals in the state budget would help the state to take forward its development agenda through alternative plans.
The budget would help Kerala to tide over the acute financial crisis the country has slipped into. While doing so, the budget proposals would be able to give the much needed help to common man. “Consolidating the achievements the government was able to establish in the last three and a half years, the budget proposes plans to make further lofty achievements in agriculture, industrial and health sectors,” Vijayan said.
The budget, claimed the chief minister, reiterated the government’s focus on social welfare. Proposals for women, children and disabled people proved the same, he said.
“The alternative and people-centric policies of the state budget would appear clearer in the background of the worsening financial slowdown in the country and the defiant attitude of the Centre towards Kerala,” he said. The chief minister claimed that the coastal development package, Kuttanad, Wayanad and Idukki packages would help to narrow down the imbalances in development.
Vijayan also said the budget reflected the concern his government maintained towards the welfare of expatriates.