Amat to present Odisha budget for 2014-15

Odisha Channel Bureau Bhubaneswar: Odisha Finance Minister Pradip Kumar Amat will present the full-fledged budget for 2014-15 in the State Assembly on Tuesday.Amat was scheduled to present proposals in the afternoon.It was likely to be a budget of around Rs.80,000 crore for 2014-15.The new Finance Minister was also likely to present a separate budget for agriculture as was done last year.The overall budget size for 2013-14 was Rs.60,303 crore.Apart from allocating a higher amount for the agriculture sector, the Finance Minister was also likely to make higher budgetary allocations for the various welfare schemes.Imposition of new taxes on certain commodities was also likely, according to sources.