The Odisha government allocated Rs 11,718 crore for the infrastructure sector in its budget for 2013-14 and this is 23 per cent more than the Rs 9,558 crore in the previous year.

The budget laid special emphasis on key sectors like infrastructure, agriculture, social security, health care and education.

The government prepared a separate booklet on outlay for the agriculture sector in the budget.

Some people-centric schemes getting significant allocation were social security pension schemes for senior citizens (Rs 1,150 crore), concrete roads for panchayats (Rs 499 crore) and the flagship Rs 1 per kg rice scheme (Rs 1,312 crore).

Though the Budget does not burden the common man with new taxes, it seeks to raise additional revenue from the mineral sector. The revenue surplus Budget contains a total outlay of Rs 60,303 crore, nearly 20 per cent higher than the Rs 52,031 crore for 2012-13.