Highlights of Kerala Budget 2011

The Kerala Budget 2011 had put in the Kerala State assembly by the finance minister of the state Dr.Thomas Issac. Being the last budget of this government a number of projects are proposed in Kerala Budget 2011. The main proposals of Kerala Budget 2011 are listed below.

• Sabarimala Development – 1000 crore for first phase
• Cable Television – Subscription rate will get reduced
• Organic Fertilizer price will get down
• Redstone price will go down
• Soil price will increase
• 20 Crore for Grand Kerala Shopping Festival
• Prices of Pooja things will decrease
• Nylon plastic coir price will get lowered
• 5 crore for Institute of retail Management
• No tax for Pooja materials sold in and around worship places
• 5 crore for KTDC Hotels at Alappuzha and Kozhikkode
• 1 crore for Bala Sahithya Institute
• 50 Check Dams will be constructed
• Family Court at Irinjalakkuda
• Two beverage testing labs will be established
• KSFE Branches in all Metro Cities
• Health Insurance Program for Pensioners
• 182 crore Kozhikode Corporation Development
• 1 crore for Sivagiri Convention centre
• 4 crore for computerization of registration department
• 32 crore for Police Department
• 5 crore for solving the traffic jam in Kochi city
• 5 crore for bus terminal in Kochi city
• 252 crore for health field
• 10 crore for Co-operative Medical colleges
• 100 crore for Kudumbasree
• 10.5 crore for Thiruvananthapuram Corporation Development
• 43 crore for co-operative field
• Sabarilama master plan first phase will complete in next year
• 100 crore for KSRTC
• KSEB Metre Rent stopped
• 2 crore for Hungerless City
• 400 crore to complete Japan Project
• 10 New ITIs
• Rs 23000/- stipend for Medical College Junior doctors
• Monetary aid for the treatment of Cancer, TB and Leprosy
• 400 Crore for Exhibition Centre at Kochi KINFRA Park.
• 1 crore for TV Thomas Memorial co-operative hospital at Alappuzha
• 50 Lakhs for film festivals film societies in Chithranjali Studio
• Special project for Wayanad district in AHADS model
• 6 crore for special bus to female students
• 1 crore CF Lamp distribution in next year
• New courses in 50 colleges
• 220 crore for Central University at Kasaragod
• 10 crore for development of Malayalam in Universities
• 22 crore for Science and Technology institutions
• 6 crore for Kalamandalam
• 202 crore for Ernakulam district
• 15 Lakhs for Malappuram Press Club
• Rs 4000/- as pension to press men
• Scholarship for the higher education of orphans
• Entertainment tax relaxation to multiplexes for first five years
• 80 crore for Art and Cultural institutions
• 43 crore for water source developments
• 25 crore Regional Cancer Centre
• 50 lakhs for Moyin Kutty Vydyar Memorial Award
• 120 Crore for National Games Stadium Development
• 12 Crore for Sports Council
• 25 Lakhs for Mercykkuttan Academy
• 35 Crore for watershed development
• Welfare Fund for house keepers
• 94 crore for National Water Way development
• 120 crore Kollam package of Road Development
• 10 new forest stations
• 2296 crore for higher education
• 30 crore for veterinary, medical and central universities
• 45 crore for Agricultural university
• 12 crore for Kochin University
• 5 crore for organic farming
• 30 crore for coconut plantation
• 75 crore construction of checkdam at Kuttanad
• 100 crore more to Haritha Fund
• Mobile Phone to all field staff in Forest Department
• Women Development Department will be established
• Facility for night stay of ladies will be implemented
• Albaraq – the Islamic Bank will be established
• Pension to unmarried ladies above 40 years
• 142 crore Trichur Package
• 80 crore for Fisheries field
• 770 crore for women welfare
• 20 crore for Endosulphan victims
• 82 crore for coir field
• Women Police constables in Night running trains
• Comfort station for ladies in public places
• 1.5 crore for self employment of widows and divorced
• Scheduled caste considerations to converted Christian students also
• 20 crore to Horticorp for the vegetable distribution
• 156 crore for the associated works of Kochi Metro
• Gratuity package for Dinesh Beedi Workers
• Rs 366/- as relief aid to fishermen
• 5 crore for Kochi – Coimbatore industrial corridor
• 9 crore to Khadi industry
• 100 crore to control price hike
• Rs 400/- as pension to handicapped
• Complete write off of Maithri House Loans
• 1 crore for Barber's Welfare fund
• 52 crore for handloom and cashew nut field
• 528 crore to local self government bodies for road development and associated works
• Free cloths to institutions that make handloom as uniform.
• 6 crore for the treatment of deadly diseased children
• Commission of ration dealers increased
• Welfare Fund for nurses and other workers of private hospitals
• 50 crore for consumer fed
• 300 rupees kit for 150 rupees through ration shops
• 75 crore subsidy for civil supply corporation
• State share for Asha volunteers increased to 300 rupees
• 10 crore for the welfare fund of out of state workers
• 2 crore for the operation of deaf children
• Welfare fund to cooks
• 10 crore for Alappuzha master plan
• 5 crore for Kodungallore City Museum
• 40 crore for Ayyankali Urban Employment program
• Monetary aid to Children's heart and kidney treatments
• 1920 crore for the development of 10 state highways
• 25 crore for compensation of National Highway development
• 3000 ration shops will be upgraded as franchisee of Civil Supply corporation
• 102 crore for land acquiring to establish IT Parks
• 20 crore for renovation of Seetharam Mill
• 105 crore for tourism development
• Insurance of Rs 10000 for each new born baby
• Welfare Pension increased from Rs 300 to Rs 400
• The state share for Anganavadi teachers increased to 1000 rupees
• 40 lakhs families will be recognized as BPL families
• 20 transformers will be built by KEL
• National Knowledge Centre at Perumbavoor
• 50 crore for Keltron Renovation
• Perumbavoor Travancore Rayons will be renovated
• Mineral Research Institute in KMML Campus
• Vizhinjam project will be completed in two phases
• 150 crore for first phase of Vizhinjam project
• 5 crore for the initial works of Spice Rout Project
• 1 crore for museums
• 15 crore spinning mill in Malabar Spinning and Weaving
• 10 crore for Kannur airport
• 15 crore for the land acquisition of Kannur Airport
• Kannur airport will be completed in two years
• 62 crore for KINFRA parks
• 12 crore for Gas Pipeline
• 141 crore for 12 hydro power projects
• Survey of North South Highway will be conducted
• 160 crore for Thankasseri port development
• 761 crore for Ponnani port
• 25 crore for Kozhikode Airport
• 250 crore for Thiruvanathapuram package.
• 40000 crore will be collected from interest less institutions
• Two new state highways
• 1000 crore By pass package
• Hill way from Parassala to Kollam
• 10 state highways will be developed
• Coastal way from Poovar to Ponnani
• 36 District roads will be double lined
• Loan taking sanction to Road Fund Board and Roads and Bridges corporation