hyderabad faced with a severe resource crunch endowments minister gade venkat reddy is all set to present a huge but themeless budget on saturdaysources in the finance department said there would no special thrust areas in the budget as the revenue growth rate has fallen drastically from 24 two years ago to just about 5 now the principal thrust will be to ensure that no programme is affected because of the fall in revenue growth rate said the sourcesthe state is banking heavily on central devolutions and other receipts from schemes sponsored by the union government though no increase is expected in the state share from the central taxes the government is hopeful of getting rs 10000 crore to rs 11000 crore which is equal to the amount it received last yearsimilarly the state is expecting the highest share in the funds allocated under national rural employment guarantee programme nregp accelerated irrigation benefit programme aibp and jawaharlal nehru national urban renewal mission jnnurm as andhra pradesh has been adjudged the best state in the country in the implementation of these schemesin addition to these programmes the state is seeking central project status for at least two major irrigation schemes according central project status to the schemes would ease the pressure on the meagre resources available to implement the prestigious jalayagnam projects state officials hope despite several constraints the state is struggling to maintain the size of the budget to more than rs 1 lakh crore for 201011 as it did last yearaccording to the sources the flagship program jalayagnam is likely to lose its sheen in so far as the allocation of funds are concerned and may not exceed rs 12000 crore a far cry from the rs 18000 crore allocated in 200910 however even this amount is unlikely to help execute the pending projects as the amount would be just about sufficient to meet the pending bills of the contractorsthough none of the populist schemes like rs 2 a kilo rice pavala vaddi for crops and self help groups shg introduced by late chief minister y s rajasekhara reddy are expected to be abolished they would nonetheless attract diminished attention we have to distribute the funds available this year to all the programmes as they cannot be discontinued abruptly the sources added stating that some changes in implementation of these schemes cannot be ruled out our main thrust will be to keep the nonplan expenditure under control said the sourcesthe year 201011 is going be the year of consolidation they added hinting that there would not be any new scheme in this years budget to paint a rosy picture the state is likely likely to show some surplus in the previous budget even though the cag pointed to a revenue deficit of rs 708 crore