CM seems to have spared the common man of additional tax burdens. Thanks to the election year.
Additional excise duty on beer hiked from 122% to 135%. So, that makes your favourite drink more expensive.
License fee for distilleries and breweries hiked by 50%.
Luxury taxis may become significantly more expensive. Rs 500 to be levied on luxury cabs per seat, per quarter.
Stamp duty exempted for alternative sites by BDA.
Key announcements:
A new policy to buy land for residential sites in rural and urban areas will be implemented.
Motor Vehicles Act to be amended to plug revenue loss from vehicles registered in other states plying on Karnataka roads. But no details on how this will be done.
Government to set up three 250-bed super speciality hospitals in Mysore, Gulbarga and Belgaum. These would serve critically ill patients.
Government to set up one medical college in each district in phased manner. Six colleges to come up initially - one each in Tumkur, Haveri, Bagalkot, Yadgir, Chikkaballapur and Chitradurga.
Kaveri Tourism Authority to be set up to develop Mysore circle (Mysore, Mandya, Chamaraja Nagar and Kodagu districts)
Incentive to set up 'Janatha Cinema Halls' at district and taluq HQs to exhibit Kannada films.
Rs 500 crore to Krishibhagya scheme to improve rainfed agriculture. The scheme will be implemented in 23 districts to cover 45 lakh hectares.
Rs 1.5 crore for entertainment in old age homes through classical music, folk performances and other traditional art forms such as harikatha. Small money but significant gesture.
Bangalore
Rs 26,405 crore for the second phase of metro rail.
Development and widening of roads - Rs 300 crore
Development of footpaths - Rs 100 crore
Development and protection of 31 lakes - Rs 100 crore
Implementation of parking policy - Rs 10 crore
Development of peripheral ring road - Rs 5800 crore
Solid waste management - Rs 100 crore
Development of arterial and sub-arterial roads - Rs 500 crore
Elevated road to be constructed from Chalukya to Hebbal junction.
Elevated road to be constructed from Alisada to Basaveshwara Circle.
BDA to construct 8000 flats.
Applications for 5000 sites in Kempegowda layout to be invited in March.
Education
Expert committee to prepare text books.
Online computer-aided education to be introduced.
Central university to be set up in Karwar.
Bangalore and Karnataka Virtual University to be set up.
10, 000 students in standards 9 and 10 to be trained in IT, retail and healthcare
Education Quality Monitoring Cell to be set up.
Allocations for different sectors
Water resources - Rs 11, 349 crore
Education - Rs 21, 305 crore
Energy - Rs 11, 693 crore
Urban Development - Rs 9995 crore
Social welfare - Rs 6475 crore
Women and child welfare - Rs 3670 crore
PWD - Rs 6634 crore
Rural Development - Rs 9361 crore
BBMP - Rs 1527 crore
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