<span style="color: #222222;">In Maharashtra, the Maha Vikas Aghadi Government will present its maiden budget for the financial year 2020-21 on 6th of March next month. This will be the first budget of the three-party government which took office on 28th of November last year.<br />''<br />''During the session, the State Legislature will hold a discussion on women's safety on 5th of March. The discussion will take place in the wake of the gruesome incident in Wardha district's Hinganghat town where a 25-year-old woman lecturer was set ablaze allegedly by her stalker in early this month and she died a week later.<br />''<br />''On the first day of the session, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Government will introduce a bill for making Marathi compulsory in all schools, irrespective of their medium of teaching.<br />''<br />''The Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of the State Legislature finalized the agenda for the budget session yesterday, which will begin on 24th of February and end on 20th of March.<br />''<br />''As per the committee's decision, the four-week long budget session will have total of 18 working days. The BAC meeting was attended by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, his deputy Ajit Pawar, Assembly Speaker Nana Patole, Council Chairman Ramraje Naik-Nimbalkar along with group leaders from both ruling and opposition parties.</span><br />
News On AIR | February 11, 2020 9:21 AM
Maharashtra's budget for FY21 to be presented on March 6