Assembly passes Appropriation Bill, clears release of funds from April 1

The Telangana Legislative Assembly on Monday (March 30) passed the Appropriation Bill 2026 (two Bills), enabling the release of government funds for various needs from April 1, Wednesday.

Deputy Chief Minister M. Bhatti Vikramarka criticised the Centre for making the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme a Centrally-sponsored programme from a Centrally-funded scheme. The Centre had not only changed the name but pruned its funding increasing the States’ contribution phenomenally, burdening the States.

Members Ahmed Bin Abdullah Balala (MIM), A. Maheshwar Reddy (BJP), K. Sambasiva Rao (CPI), Ch. Vijayaramana Rao, Beerla Ilaiah, Vakiti Srihari and others of the Congress spoke on the Appropriation Bill.

Mr. Balala criticised the government for not releasing the Assembly Constituency Development Programme (ACDP) funds for the last two years — in 2024-25 and 2025-26. He sought to know from the government as to where was the need for a supplementary budget when every programme was facing paucity of funds.

Mr. Maheshwar Reddy sought to know why the government had allocated only ₹1,500 crore to VB G-RAM-G scheme (revised MGNREGS) as its share when the provision in the new scheme was 40% contribution of funds from the States for implementation against the Centre’s 60% with about ₹4,000 crore allocation and spending by the State (as 10% contribution provision so far) in 2025-26.

Further, he faulted the government for pruning funds to every government scheme/programme.

Speaker G. Prasad Kumar adjourned the House sine die after it passed the Appropriation Bill.