
2016-17
- Overall deficit: Rs. 2041.22 crore
- Tax on automated robot car parking system reduced from 14.5 per cent to 5 per cent
- Free rations to those living below the poverty line
- Rs 150 crore for providing two LED bulbs in every house in the State; Solar park in Kasaragod.
- Plastic goods to attract more tax
- Commercial Tax Department to be reconstituted.
- VAT reimbursement for cooperative societies; Formula developed for removing pesticides from vegetables exempted from tax.
- LNG exempted from tax for another year
- No tax on earthenware, white cane,electronic cane and braille printer for blind and certain traditional products
- All companies exempted from Agriculture Income Tax in 2016-17. Taxt rate unified at 30%
- International Women's Trade Centre to be formed at Kakkanad.
- Insurance cover to 30 lakh welfare pensioners; Pension for those aged above 75 years raised to Rs. 1500 a month.
- Government to form Waste Management Authority (Rs. 25 cr); City improvement scheme for Kannur (Rs. 10cr.)
- Thiruvanathapuram Medical College to be developed as Centre of Excellence.
- Pariayaram Medical College to be taken over by the Government; Kerala Emergency Medical Service to be extended to all districts.
- Ernakulam Maharaja's College to be converted into Digital College
- Interest concession to ITI, polytechnic students on educational loans. Rs. 200 crore earmarked for help with loans.
- 100 schools to be developed to international standards.
- Feasibility study for highspeed corridor to be completed this year
- Re. 1 per tonne subsidy to promote inland navigation
- Feasibility study for elevated expressway
- Underpass at Pattom and Peroorkada in Trivandrum
- PPP model for development of industrial parks- Rs. 2 crore
- Power subsidy to be extended to cash crops including cardamon
- Power generation to be increased.
- Rs. 100 cr for new dam at Mullaperiyar
- Sabarimala infrastructure development- Rs. 40 crore
- Kerala to achieve self sufficiency in milk production shortly.
- Welfare pension for diary farmers hiked to Rs. 800 a month
- Rs. 500 cr for rubber, Rs. 35 cr for paddy, Rs. 45 cr for coconut
- Kerala achieved higher growth rates under UDF Government: Chief Minister
- Assets of rural households three times that of national average