Focus on infra, culture — highlights from Maharashtra interim budget & Opposition's criticism

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Mumbai:Shivneri Museum based on life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, a Maharashtra Bhawan Guest house at Srinagar and Ayodhya, an emphasis on infrastructure projects all these were included in Maharashtra states interim budget ahead of the elections...

State finance minister Ajit Pawar Tuesday presented an interim budget ofRs 6,00,522 crorewith a revenue deficit of Rs 9,734 crore expected this financial year...

Against the backdrop of the ongoing Maratha agitation, Pawar announced that the state has decided to set up a Museum based on the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Vadaj in Taluka Junnar..

Apart from that,Rs 22,225 crorefor land acquisition for Virar-Alibaug Multimodal Corridor; Rs10,519 crorefor land acquisition for Pune Ring Road; Rs2,886 crorefor land acquisition of Jalna-Nanded Expressway is being set aside, Pawar said.. To appeal to voters and encourage tourism to Ayodhya, Maharashtra government has announced setting up of Maharashtra Bhawan Guest house in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir and Shri Ram Janmabhoomi at Ayodhya...

State Finance Minister Pawars former colleague from the undivided NCP, Jayant Patil, now state chief of NCP-Sharadchandra Pawar, also slammed the budget and said that the government has just painted a rosy picture, but the share of government is limited. There is no financial planning..

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