<h1>People's budget shaped by public suggestions to advance development priorities while maintaining fiscal discipline in state finances.</h1> The upcoming state budget is characterized as a people's budget shaped by public suggestions, with over twelve thousand submissions and several thousand to be incorporated. It follows prior budget commitments-248 announcements with seventy-seven implemented and most others near completion-and is presented against strengthened fiscal metrics: rising GDP and per capita income, increased own revenue, broad departmental expenditure, fiscal deficit within FRBM limits, and a higher central tax share under the 16th Finance Commission. Socio economic gains cited include employment growth, expanded higher education, MSME formalisation, and export increases.