Bhubaneswar: While the Modi government’s 12th straight budget has showered gifts to states facing election, what it holds out for the State of Odisha, which has catapulted BJP govt to power at the centre and at the same time delivered the State to form first BJP govt.
Though the Budget 2025 presented by Union FM Nirmala Sitharaman has no direct schemes for the State, except the net direct tax resource transfer mandated under the 15th Finance Commission.
As per the Budget document, Odisha budget will receive a whopping Rs 64,408.27cr in 2025-26 from the distribution of net proceeds of Union taxes and duties.
The State Budget had received Rs 58,270 cr in the FY 2024-25.
As a consequence, in the FY 2025-26, the State will be getting a central tax proceeds transfer of Rs 6136 cr boost.
NET PROCEEDS PIE
As the Centre has seen a significant growth in direct tax collections, especially Income tax, this year, the transferring from the IT proceeds to State has cornered the largest share.
Odisha will be receiving nearly Rs 23,997cr. The other taxes share in the pie given below.
- Central GST at No 2 spot with a share of Rs 18,750.90cr
- Corporate tax share in the total net proceed transfer stood at Rs17,985cr
- Customs – Rs 2964.58cr
- Union Excise – Rs 615.89cr
- Service tax – 1.82cr
- Others – Rs 92.82cr
WHAT SCHEMES BENEFIT ODISHA?
Odisha will be the biggest beneficiary of the newly launched PM –Dhan-Dhanyaa scheme. The reason has been the following.
- In 2024-25, the yield of Rice in Odisha, staple food of the state, has been lowest in the country at 2032 q/ha.
- The yield has been same as in Kharif and Rabi
- Odisha’s rice yield rate has declined over the years.
- In 2020-21, the yield per hectare stood at 2275q/ha in 2021 Kharif and 2353q/ha in Rabi
- This shows the food grain crop in Odisha has been linked to weather disruptions as well as falling gross cropped area.
- A comparative study table has been given below that shows in almost all major crops, Odisha is lagging far behind the national average.
Moreover, as per data available, in Odisha has many as 10 districts come under very low productivity, 17 districts grouped under low productivity and 3 other figure in the medium low productivity regions. See the table below.
- Medium Low productivity (1500-2000kg/ha)
- Gajapati
- Bargarh
- Sonepur
- Low Productivity (1000-1500kg/ha)
- Koraput
- Rayagada
- Nabrangpur
- Samblapur
- Khurda
- Ganjam
- Nayagarh
- Bhadrak
- Cuttack
- Phulbani
- Balasore
- Malkangiri
- Puri
- Kalahandi
- Jagatsinghpur
- Mayurbhanj
- Jharsuguda
- Very Low Productivity (below 1000kg/ha)
- Boudh
- Dhenkanal
- Jajpur
- Kendrapada
- Keonjhar
- Angul
- Deogarh
- Bolangir
- Sundargarh
- Nuapada
- In Odisha, iriigation coverage stood at 29.2%, as per the data available in Agriculture Statistics at glance.
- Barring northeastern states, MAHARASHTRA has the lowest irrigation coverage in the country.
Owing to above farming blips in the State, PM-Dhan-Dhanyaa Scheme will benefit Odisha in a big way, just like the Aspirational Distric Programme of PM Modi.
OTHER SCHEMES GAIN/LOSS GIVEN BELOW
GAINS
- Samagra Shiksha Yojana
- PM Schools for RISING India
- PM Formalisation of Micro Food processing Enterprises Scheme (PM FME): allocation hiked by a whopping Rs 800cr to RS 2000cr
- Ayushman Bharat PMJAY allocation up by Rs 2.2K cr
- PM Ayhushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission: allocation hiked by Rs 1200 cr to touch Rs 4000cr
- PM-AWAS Urban 2.0 – allocation hiked to 3500cr
- AMRUT Mission outlay up at Rs 10K cr
- POSHAN 2.0
LOSSSES
- PM Awas Yojana - Urban: allocation pruned to 19K cr from rs 30k cr in 2024-25 BE.
- Jal Jeevan Mission outlay slashed to Rs 67Kcr from 70K cr in BE 2024-25
- Crop Insurance scheme
In case of MGNREGA, the allocation has been maintained the same as in 2024-25. Here its neither gain or loss.
