Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday dispelled apprehensions of the State Government on reduced allocation from the Centre to Odisha. The anxiety in certain quarters that the State will not get its due share from the Union Budget 2019-20 is unfounded as the finer prints of the Budget are yet to be made public. Those speculating that Odisha will get far less than what it has projected in the State’s Budget for the current fiscal are trying to project themselves as economists, Pradhan told reporters after reaching here from New Delhi.
Asserting that the State will get a lion’s share from all the schemes of the Centre, the Union Minister said Odisha is a focus State of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The State will continue to get special attention of the Centre and will hugely benefit from all infrastructure and welfare programmes of the Central Government.