On February 20, 2025, Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna presented the state’s budget for the fiscal year 2025-26, with an outlay of Rs 8.08 lakh crore, marking a 9.8% increase over the previous year. The budget emphasizes AI innovation, education, urban development, and key social welfare schemes.

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• Total budget outlay: Rs 8,08,736 crore, 9.8% increase from last year.
• 22% allocated for development, 13% for education, 11% for agriculture, and 6% for health.
• Plans to create an “Artificial Intelligence City” to make UP an AI hub.
• Proposal for a Technology Research Translation Park in Cybersecurity.
• Upgradation of state legislative assembly with advanced IT systems.
• Establishment of ICT labs and smart classrooms in primary and secondary schools.
• Upgrading government polytechnics with smart classrooms and digital libraries.
• Rs 145 crore allocated to revamp 58 urban local bodies into smart urban bodies.
• Social welfare includes new labor hubs for construction workers with basic amenities.
• Rs 27 crore allocated for a new medical college in Ballia and Rs 25 crore for one in Balrampur.