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Latest updates and top stories from the Kerala category
Kerala Budget: Mittayi scheme for Type 1 diabetic children to get a makeover
Budget announces reforms in scheme implementation, including availability of quality medicines, insulin pumps, and CGM sensors. Organisations of parents of children with Type 1 diabetes welcome announcements, seek early implementation.
Kerala Budget: Kollam integrated into Southern Economic Corridor
The corridor links the unique geographical and economic strengths of Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, and Alappuzha into a unified economic zone
Kerala Budget: Industry status, other proposals for Malayalam cinema cheer stakeholders
A permanent venue for the international film festival, forming robust anti-piracy cells, and cultivating an environment to attract premier film productions are among the projects envisaged. An amount of ₹100 crore is earmarked for all these projects
Outlay for general education goes up in Kerala Budget
Total allocation is ₹1,477.57 crore. Of this, ₹1,032.28 crore has been earmarked for improving quality and academic standards. Former Education Minister V. Sivankutty says the Budget lacks vision
Kerala Budget: Expert panel to look into Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board overhaul
KIIFB relies on off-budget borrowings at significantly higher interest rates, which has pushed the State’s borrowings and debt burden beyond permissible limits, triggering grave macroeconomic imbalances, says Satheesan
Kerala Budget: new insurance scheme, the highlight for health sector
Oommen Chandy health insurance scheme will provide healthcare coverage of up to ₹25 lakh for all families. A ₹100-crore project to establish Kerala Health and Life Sciences City announced. It envisages a healthcare ecosystem by integrating multi-specialty hospitals, medical colleges, research laboratories and rehabilitation facilities
Kerala Budget: Private investment the only way to boost State’s economy, says Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan
He dismisses Opposition allegations that the UDF is promoting privatisation and says that the government intends to introduce new economic models.
Kerala Budget: UDF govt’s plan to shift IFFK to Kochi may face technical hurdles, including losing accreditation
Capital Thiruvananthapuram has hosted the previous 30 editions of IFFK
Kerala Budget: Revised incentives, dedicated sub-plan for Fisheries sector
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Kerala Budget announces anti-ragging law, student distress app in memory of J.S. Sidharthan
Satheesan says ragging and campus violence continue to be major issues in colleges across the State and that such tendencies also act as barriers to student admissions
Kerala Budget earmarks record outlay of ₹5,952 crore for road renovation
A ‘Road Architecture Wing’ will be formed to upgrade and modernise the roads, bypasses and junctions in Kerala to international standards
Kerala Budget bets on silver economy, launches elderly welfare initiatives
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan says a comprehensive Silver Economic Policy will be formulated and executed, incorporating eldercare services, retirement infrastructure, innovations in geriatric healthcare, and elderly entrepreneurship
Kerala Budget aims to attract private investment but makes no mention of PSU projects
The total allocation for the industrial sector is ₹1,115.48 crore, while the total allocation for the Industries and Minerals sector is ₹1,558.08 crore
Kerala Budget unveils Knowledge Valley, Job Watch Tower, research park to boost higher education
The proposed Kerala Knowledge Valley is intended to bring together globally reputed universities, premier Indian institutions, state-of-the-art research parks and centres of excellence under a single ecosystem
Kerala Budget: Pinarayi Vijayan says UDF govt ‘rebranded’ LDF schemes, accuses it of promoting corporate interests
Former CM and current Opposition Leader says Budget is “largely a renaming exercise” of previously announced schemes without any substantive new direction
Kerala Budget: ‘Land Reforms 2.0’ for reviewing land laws, amending statutes
Kerala CM Satheesan announced that a comprehensive ‘land management policy’ would be formulated to address structural challenges in freeing up land for industrial projects
Dream projects feature high in Kerala’s Revised Budget; Satheesan announces Land Reforms 2.0, hike in rubber MSP
A glut of announcements marks Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan’s 98-minute presentation of Kerala Budget which promises ‘governance with empathy’
Kerala Budget charts plan to make State a leading ‘unified Port City’
Budget proposes harnessing the integrated strengths of the State’s 600-km coastline, 17 non-major ports, two major ports, and its extensive road, rail, sea, and inland waterway networks
Kerala Police investigate ‘I love Pakistan’ message found on vessel at Cochin Shipyard
The message, inscribed on an internal wall of the vessel using a sharp object, was noticed by employees engaged in maintenance work
