State Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will present the annual Budget for the fiscal year 2023-24 on February 24, with general debate beginning on February 27.
The Odisha Assembly’s budget session will begin on February 21 and will last until April 6.
According to the schedule released by the Assembly secretariat on Thursday, the session will begin on February 21 with Governor Ganeshi Lal’s address. The motion to thank the Governor for his speech will be made on the same day. The Governor’s address will be discussed further on February 22 and 23.
State Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will present the annual Budget for the fiscal year 2023-24 on February 24, with general debate beginning on February 27. On March 31, the House will hear the appropriation bill.
During the session, there will be a seven-day break from March 2 to March 9. According to the schedule, all second and fourth Saturdays and Sundays, March 30 (Shreeram Navami), and April 1 (Odisha Day) will be closed.
In light of the model code of conduct imposed for panchayat and urban polls in the state, the state government presented a vote-on-account Budget last year. The state government later presented the full-fledged Budget for 2022-23 in July 2022, with a total outlay of Rs 2 lakh crore.
Prasanta Patnaik 
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