Udaipur, February 19, 2025 – Rajasthan Deputy Chief Mnister Diya Kumari presented the Rajasthan Budget 2025-26 in the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha today, February 19, in the presence of Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma.

Key Takeaways of Budget 2025-26:

• State's GDP is estimated to increase to more than more than 19.89 lakh crores in 2025-26; to create a 350 billion dollar economy by 2030.
• 1,000 tube wells and 1,500 hand pumps to be installed next year; a contract cadre of technical staff (1050 posts) will be created for drinking water for the state.
• 150 units of free electricity every month; solar plates to be installed on the houses of the beneficiary families of free electricity.
• Five lakh new domestic electricity connections and 5,000 new agricultural connections.
• Ring roads to be built in 15 cities including Balotra, Jaisalmer, Jhalawar and Dungarpur, to provide relief from traffic congestion. Provision of Rs 50 crore for DPR. Jaipur's BRTS will be removed. Rs 250 crore will be given separately for roads in Jaipur.
• For the second phase of Jaipur Metro, work will start from Sitapura to Ambawadi at a cost of Rs 12,000  crore.
• 1.25 lakh recruitments in Rajasthan in a year. Through the employment fair, there will be recruitments in private companies for 1.5 lakh posts.
• Rajasthan Roadways will buy 500 new buses on GCC model. Also, 500 buses will be bought on GCC model through RSRTC in urban areas.
• Rs 500 crore will be spent to provide employment training. Vishwakarma Yuva Udyami Yojana announced for 25,000 women and SC-ST entrepreneurs. Under this scheme, 8 percent subsidy will be given on a loan of Rs two crore. There is a provision of Rs 150 crore in the scheme.
• More than 750 startups will get funding from iStop. Skill training to 50,000 youths next year. Vishwakarma Institute will be established in Kota at a cost of Rs 150 crores.
• Seats will be increased in many schools and colleges of Rajasthan. Atal Tinkering Lab will be built in 1500 schools. Digital Planetariums will be built in Alwar, Ajmer, Bikaner. Innovation Hub will be established in Science Centres of Bharatpur, Kota, Ajmer, Bikaner.
• Patchable roads will be constructed across Rajasthan at a cost of Rs 6,000 crores. Non-patchable works will be done in each Assembly constituency at a cost of Rs 10 crores and desert areas will be provided with works worth Rs 15 crores.
• Proposal to construct 500 pink toilets for women in the newly-formed urban bodies next year at a cost of Rs 175 crores.
• Provision of Rs 550 crores for the development of Panch Tatva in districts.
• Amount of Rs 50 crores to Rs 100 crores for Mewat region.
• Proposal to bring Global Capacity Center to increase investment in service centres.
• Rs 975 crores to promote tourism.
• Announcement of Tribal Tourism Circuit in Tripura Sundari Mangarh Dham.
• Development of tribal religious place with Rs 100 crores.
• Provision of Rs 20 crores budget for rural tourism.
• Chief Minister to organise religious tour for senior citizens.
• Free religious tour by train for 50,000 elderly and by plane for 6,000 people.
• Land allocation for promotion of sportsperson
• Construction of nine expressways in Rajasthan.
• Diabetes centres to be set up in district hospitals.
• 750 doctors and 1,500 paramedical posts to be created in the coming year.
• Free milk for children between 3 and 6 years of age for five days a week instead of three days, under the Mukhyamantri Amrit Aahar Yojana, from the coming year at a budget of around Rs 200 crore.
• Pension amount to elderly people, single women, widows and small and marginal farmers of low income group to be increased to Rs 1,250 per month from Rs 1,150 from next year.
• Free medicines at home to the elderly above 70 years of age.
• Under the Rajivika Mission, 20 lakh women to be brought under the category of Lakhpati Didi; will be given loans up to Rs 1 lakh at 1.5 percent interest instead of 2.5 percent.
• 10 lakh new families to be added under the Food Security Scheme. Annapurna Bhandar to be opened at 5,000 fair price shops.
• Mukhyamantri Suposhan Kit Yojana to be implemented at Anganwadi centers for the last five months to benefit 2.35 lakh women at cost of Rs 25 crore.
• Girl Child Care Centres to be opened at 10 district headquarters.
• Amount of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi to be increased to Rs 9,000 from the coming year. Bonus amount per quintal above the MSP of wheat increased to Rs 150.
• Reservation for Agniveers in the Police, Jail Department and Forest Department; reservation in fire services proposed.
• Amount of offerings in temples in Rajasthan to be Rs 3,000; honorarium of priests to be Rs 7,000. Govinddevji Art Festival to be held in Jaipur at a budget of Rs 50 crore; honorarium of people's representatives of Panchayati Raj increased by 10 percent.
• Recruitment of 100 veterinary doctors and 1,000 veterinary inspectors; number of animals in the animal insurance scheme doubled and medicines in the Pashudhan Free Arogya Yojana increased from 138 to 200. About Rs 40 crore to be spent extra on this.
• Target set of collecting 13 lakh litres of milk under the Chief Minister's Milk Production Scheme; 1,000 new milk collection centres to be opened; subsidy per animal in cow shelters increased to Rs 50 per animal.
• Industry status to be given to warehouses. Warehouses built in industrial areas before February 1, 2025, will now be regulated.
• Demand amount up to Rs 50 lakh on VAT removed during the year 2017 waived. At the same time, there will be 100 percent discount on interest penalty on outstanding dues more than this. There will be a discount on interest penalty on depositing lease amount by September 30 in urban areas.
• Government to give subsidy on biogas plants from next year.
• Urban areas of Bundi, Nathdwara, Khatushyamji, Mount Abu, Balotra, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Sawai Madhopur, Alwar, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Kishangarh, Bhilwara and Pushkar to be developed as Clean and Green Cities in the next three years at a budget of Rs 900 crore, on the lines of the Centre's Smart City scheme.
• Production from Pachpadara refinery to start in August. Centre of Excellence for Mines and Minerals to start in Jaipur at Rs 60 crores.
• Rajasthan City Gas Distribution Policy to be introduced. 1.25 lakh homes to be connected with pipeline gas.
• Petro campuses to open in Institute of Mines in Udaipur and MVM University in Jodhpur.
• Property worth up to Rs 50 lakhs bought with wife in Rajasthan to be cheaper; half percent discount on stamp duty.