TNPSC Thervupettagam

Kerala’s Environment Budget

February 15 , 2024 154 days 343 0
  • In a first, the Kerala government has introduced an Environment Budget as a separate document along with the State Budget.
  • It is evaluating environmental impacts of budgetary and fiscal policies and integrating environmental concerns into the policies and programmes of the State.
  • The document highlights 81 schemes in nine sectors and their Budget allocations in environment-related areas.
  • The sectors selected for the first Environment Budget are agriculture, livestock, fisheries, forests and wildlife, environment, water resources, cooperation, soil survey, and the energy sector.
  • The total outlay for environment-related schemes in the Budget allocations for these sectors is approximately 668.88 crore for 2024-25.

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