<h1>Assam's 2025-26 budget focuses on expanding current schemes, infrastructure growth, and cultural projects, avoiding new announcements.</h1> Assam's 2025-26 state budget, presented by the Chief Minister, emphasizes expanding existing schemes rather than introducing new ones, aiming to extend benefits to more people. The budget supports a development model integrating infrastructure growth with cultural and heritage advancement. Despite some criticism labeling it as an election budget, the Chief Minister clarified that it contains no new announcements. However, it includes additions like an OTT platform for Assamese content and a satellite project. The budget highlights increased capital expenditure over the past decade and focuses on direct financial transfers to stimulate economic activities at the grassroots level.