Kolkata: Amid the three major concerns of debt, revenue and expenditure management, West Bengal Minister of State for Finance (independent charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya will present the state budget for the financial year 2025-26 in the state Assembly on Wednesday.
As per figures of the state finance department, the total accumulated debt for West Bengal as of March 31, 2025, is slated to rise to Rs 6,93,231.66 crore, which is significantly higher than the figure of Rs 6,30,783.50 as of March 31, 2024.
Incidentally, at the end of the financial year 2010-11, the last financial year under the previous Left Front regime, the total accumulated debt was slightly over Rs 1.90 lakh crore.
Economists feel that the high accumulated debt…
