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The Kerala government said it expected to generate 20,000 jobs for the youth through start-up projects.
Kerala Finance Minister TM Thomas Isaac on Friday presented the sixth Budget of the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government in the Assembly, which focuses on education, jobs and technology.
Isaac commenced his Budget speech with quotes from a poem written by Sneha, a Class 7 student of Kuzhalmandam government school in Palakkad.
A substantial sum of money has been allocated for welfare schemes, technology, innovations, education and agriculture. The Budget also proposes schemes to generate employment and help start-ups.
The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government proposed a raise in social welfare pension to people below the poverty line to Rs 1,600 per month, an increase of Rs 100 from last December, which was increased just before the local body elections. Around 60 lakh people benefit from this scheme.