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MBAs present the State Budget 2017-18

24-Mar-2017

MBAs present the State Budget 2017-18 The Department of Business Administration organized a presentation and discussion of State Budget 2017-18 at campus. Three Groups comprising of eleven students presented on three themes viz (a) Health, Education and other welfare programmes (b) Infrastructure and Industrial Development Programmes (c) Agriculture and Rural Development programmes that were proposed in the State Budget presented by Honorable Chief Minister Shri. Siddaramaiah on the 15th of March 2017. The presentation by the students was followed by questions to the participating teams by the two Resource Persons, Dr. Savitha, Professor, School of Management Manipal University and Prof. Hariprasad Shetty from Government First Grade College Vamadapadavu, Bantwal.

Dr. Savitha, expressed her critical views on budget stating that, though some of the programmes proposed in the budget for health, education, infrastructure and industrial development are laudable, there is no sincere effort in the budget to enhance the revenue of the State.

MBAs present the State Budget 2017-18 Prof. Hariprasad Shetty, in his address stated that with the abolition of planning commission and finance commission, State government have a key role to play in health, education, agriculture and rural development. While critically commenting on the programmes proposed for the development of agriculture and rural development he said that the issue of sustainability is not addressed in the budget.

Students of MBA actively participated in the question and answer session.

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