Himachal Budget 2025-26: The government also said that it will focus on promoting religious and eco-tourism besides exploring lesser-known tourist destinations.
Himachal Budget 2025-26: Minimum support price of cow milk increased by Rs 6 per litre
Himachal Budget 2025-26: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday presented the annual Budget for the year 2025-26. While presenting the budget, the Chief Minister announced a hike of Rs 6 in the minimum support price of cow milk. With this, the minimum support price for cow will be Rs 51 per litre and buffalo milk will be Rs 61 per litre.
Emphasising the target to bring one lakh farmers under natural farming in 2025-26, Sukhu said that so far, about 1.58 lakh farmers have taken to natural farming.
Farmers growing kachi haldi (raw turmeric) naturally will get minimum support price of Rs 90 per kg, he said, adding that the state government plans to set up a Spice Park in Hamirpur.
Daily wages of workers engaged in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act increased by Rs 20 from Rs 300 to Rs 320 per day, the CM said.
The government also said that it will focus on promoting religious and eco-tourism besides exploring lesser-known tourist destinations.
While presenting his third annual Budget for FY26, Sukhu said the year 2025-26 is full of financial challenges as revenue deficit grant has been reduced and GST compensation has been stopped.
Focus is on promoting religious tourism and exploring lesser-known tourist destinations, he said and added that tea estates would be developed as eco-tourism destinations, he said.
Informing that the debt liability of the state has risen to Rs 1,04,729 crore out of which Rs 29,046 lakh have been taken by the present government, he said 70 per cent of the loan taken in the past two years was spent on repayment of loan taken by the previous government and its interest component.
Only Rs 8,093 was spent on development activities.
In order to combat drug abuse in Himachal Pradesh, the CM announced the constitution of a Special Task Force (STF).
He said that about 500 electric buses will be purchased in 2025-26 and the Shimla Ropeway project will be started in the next fiscal year.
He also announced several schemes for agriculturists, women, disabled and children and said that separate directorates for school and colleges would be constituted.
With PTI inputs
