State overcame hurdles by mopping up tax and non-tax revenues: Balagopal

Industries Minister P. Rajeeve astatine the ailment redressal adalat held successful the Kalamassery Assembly constituency connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal said present connected Tuesday (May 13, 2025) that the full taxation and non-tax revenues were expected to transverse ₹1 lakh crore astatine the extremity of the existent fiscal.

The full taxation and non-tax revenues accrued from ₹54,000 crore successful the 2020-21 fiscal twelvemonth to ₹95,000 crore this fiscal. “The taxation gross erstwhile the Left Democratic Front (LDF) came to powerfulness was ₹47,000 crore. It has present gone up to astir ₹81,000 crore,” helium said successful his inaugural code astatine the ailment redressal adalat held successful the Kalamassery Assembly constituency.

He added that the authorities did not summation the prices of liquor, contempt it being a cardinal gross root arsenic it mightiness pb to an summation successful the usage of narcotic substances. The authorities ensured ratio crossed assorted sectors and it helped flooded the assorted hurdles, helium said.

Mr. Balagopal said Kerala would crook into 1 of the apical charismatic occupation destinations successful the state successful the adjacent 10 years successful presumption of infrastructure and different improvement projects initiated by the government.

The Minister said the 2 installments of societal information and payment money committee pensions would beryllium released aft May 20. There would beryllium nary going backmost connected payment pension for the needy arsenic the authorities was committed to specified schemes, helium added.

P. Rajeeve, Minister for Industries and MLA representing the Kalamassery constituency, said discarded dumps successful the municipality were turned into nationalist spaces done the ‘waste-free’ run of the government. Hundreds of occupation opportunities had been created done the government’s ‘Knowledge Kerala’ project, helium added.

Various complaints submitted by the nationalist were taken up astatine the adalat. The Minister directed the authorities to instrumentality contiguous enactment to guarantee entree to Jessy Scaria, a nonmigratory of TOG Pass Road, who alleged that her neighbour had curtailed vehicular entree to the adjacent renovated municipal roadworthy by dumping scrap materials and waste. She besides submitted grounds to beryllium her claim. Over 150 complaints retired of the astir 200 received were resolved astatine the adalat. It included issues related to allotment of rubric deeds, onshore conversion and ration cards, according to a release.

Published - May 13, 2025 09:50 p.m. IST