Delhi Budget 2025: BJP’s first budget for Delhi on March 25; here’s what to expect

For the 2024-25 financial year, the AAP government had tabled a budget of Rs. 76,000 crore.

Sources aware of developments in this regard said the Budget, which would be presented during the five-day Budget Session of the Delhi Legislative Assembly between March 24 and 28, was likely to be themed along the BJP’s poll slogan of ‘Viksit Dilli’ (developed Delhi).

“Delhi’s budget for the 2025-26 fiscal is likely to be around Rs 80,000 crore and have a major emphasis on affecting visible change in the Capital’s existing public infrastructure; the priority is, more or less, a complete and tangible overhaul of the city’s current condition within three years of the new government,” a source said.

Urban development, Flood and Irrigation, Delhi Jal Board, and Public Works Department, the source said, are expected to be priority departments as far as the entire budgetary exercise was concerned, apart from “zero interruption” to the power and water subsidies inherited by the new BJP government.

“But that is not to say that focus on other significant services such as health and education, for instance, will go down. In these sectors too, the emphasis is expected to be on the creation of better infrastructure – more hospitals, schools and better roads – apart from rejuvenation of the Yamuna,” the source also said.

Apart from the budget, as per sources, other key developments expected during the session were the tabling of around 10 CAG reports on various aspects of the functioning of the AAP Delhi government and the constitution of a nine-member Public Accounts Committee (PAC), among others.

“While a few of the Assembly’s committees have been constituted, the rest will be created during the upcoming session; this includes the PAC, which has the mandate to preside over the assessment of loss caused to the state exchequer by the previous government,” a source said.