<h1>Discontinuation of Revenue Deficit Grant increases fiscal pressure; state enacts salary deferments and targeted welfare measures in budget.</h1> The budget responds to discontinuation of the Revenue Deficit Grant by reducing overall expenditure and imposing temporary salary deferments for listed officeholders and senior officials for six months, while allocating funds to complete pending works. It shifts subsidies to targeted welfare-free electricity for identified low income households, monthly cash transfers to eligible women, housing for selected poor families-and specifies sectoral measures including increased procurement prices for milk, a minimum support price for fish with reduced royalty, formation of a Kisan Aayog and a Women's Tourism Fund, and allocations for eco tourism and forest plantation.