Kerala Budget 2025-26: Smart Moves to Tame Fiscal Deficit
Kerala’s 2025-26 budget outlines clear strategies to shrink the fiscal deficit to 3.2% of GSDP (₹45,039 crore) from 3.5% the prior year, blending revenue boosts with spending discipline. Revenue-Boosting Initiatives A 50% hike in basic land revenue rates across all slabs, plus steeper road taxes on vehicles over 15 years,
Kerala Budget 2025-26 Empowers Healthcare with Record Investments
Kerala’s 2025-26 budget channels ₹10,431 crore into healthcare, a strategic hike that bolsters medical infrastructure and public health amid rising lifestyle diseases and emergency demands. Expanded Emergency Services Advanced life support ambulances under the 108 service receive ₹80 crore to deploy 335 units statewide, ensuring faster critical care response. Cath
Kerala Budget 2025-26: Modest Tax Hikes Target Land, Vehicles for Revenue Boost
Kerala’s 2025-26 state budget implemented selective tax increases expected to generate an additional ₹100 crore, emphasizing land revenue and older vehicles to support infrastructure without broad-based levies. Major Tax Adjustments Land revenue basic tax rates across all categories were raised by 50%, correcting historically low levels to channel funds into
Kerala Budget 2025-26 vs 2024-25: Sectoral Shifts amid Fiscal Tightening
Kerala’s 2025-26 budget increased total expenditure by 11% to ₹1,98,582 crore from 2024-25 revised estimates, maintaining welfare dominance at 42-44% of spending while trimming agriculture and education. Revenue grew 15%, with fiscal deficit targeted lower at 3.2% of GSDP, reflecting efficiency amid rising committed costs like pensions. Key Sectoral Changes
Kerala Budget 2026: Major Welfare Boost with ₹14,500 Crore for Pensions, Worker Pay Hikes
Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal presented the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government’s final budget on January 29, 2026, allocating ₹14,500 crore for social security pensions and hiking monthly wages by ₹1,000 each for anganwadi and ASHA workers. The budget also sets aside ₹400 crore for the Chief Minister’s Connect Work Scholarship scheme
