Siddaramaiah Presents Record Seventeenth Karnataka State Budget

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah presented his 17th state budget on Friday with a total outlay of Rs 4,48,004 crore, making him the state's record finance minister for budget presentations. The budget allocates major funds to education (Rs 47,224 crore), women and child welfare, energy and healthcare, and launches initiatives including developing Mysuru as an IT hub, an IISc–ISRO–Keonics AI and robotics zone, and a Rs 1,500 crore man-animal conflict program.