Fiscal discipline maintained: supplementary budget allocations approved while state debt and fiscal deficit remain within prescribed limits.
Presentation of supplementary demands totalling Rs 57,509.71 crore to fund Centrally-sponsored schemes, infrastructure, statutory grants and committed expenditure, with the finance minister asserting continued adherence to fiscal discipline. The net additional burden after receipts is lower than gross demands and major allocations include 15th Finance Commission transfers, refunds, state equity in transit projects, loans to cooperative sugar mills, central capital assistance and NABARD funding. Projected debt is 18.87% of GSDP and fiscal deficit is 2.76% of GSDP, cited as within prescribed limits.