Telangana govt to present vote-on-account budget on Feb 22

Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, a brief session of the Telangana assembly session will commence on February 22 during which a vote-on-account budget would be presented. The session would be held till February 25, a release from the chief minister's offices said Thursday.

"The vote-on-account state budget of Telangana will be presented on February 22 at 11.30 AM," it said. After the presentation of the vote-on-account, discussions would be held the next day.

The Appropriation Bill would be adopted by the House on February 25, the release added. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao told officials that the vote-on-account budget to be presented to the assembly should take care of all the commitments made to people, with maximum budgetary provision made for welfare.

Rao held a meeting with officials on budget preparation and other issues. "The CM said adequate budgetary provision should be made in such a way that the commitments made in the recent elections would be fulfilled and also the existing schemes would be continued," another release from his office said..