<h1>Fiscal position improving: government defends budget measures and proposes faceless adjudication plus targeted relief and welfare safeguards.</h1> The state government asserts an improving fiscal position, defending the 2025-26 budget against opposition claims of deepening debt by citing increased budget revenue and expenditure and maintained essential spending despite reduced central borrowing. It reports plan expenditure at about two-thirds overall and higher for local bodies. The budget proposes clearing outstanding dues, allocating disaster relief funds, preserving minority and marginalised scholarships, prioritising welfare pension arrears, considering minimum support price increases for certain crops, and implementing a faceless adjudication system for GST taxpayer and audit functions.