chandigarh under fire from opposition parties and the leaders of rival parties over the issue of quantum of debt of the state the haryana chief minister manohar lal khattar on monday reiterated that the state has never exceeded its limit of 35 of fiscal management for raising the debtkhattar clarified this during the inaugural address of day long training session for the mlas on the economics of annual budget held at panchkulathe central government had given the states the facility to take loans up to 5 percent of the gsdp but haryanas debt burden has remained within the range of 3 to 35 percent of gsdp while other states took the entire 5 percent loan the government aims to keep this limit up to 3 percent only said khattarstates cannot borrow more than 25 percent of the gsdp due to the pandemic the receipts of the state government decreased and faced economic hardship but we have taken loans within this limit despite the pandemic crisis he added khattar asserted said that the economic condition of haryana is better than many other states our financial management is good due to which we have been able to manage states budget deficit in terms of per capita income also we are number one among the big states he said meanwhile referring to training session khatar requested the legislators to forward their suggestions and ideas for the forthcoming state budgetvidhan sabha speaker gian chand gupta deputy speaker ranbir gangwa parliamentary affairs minister kanwar pal and other ministers and mlas attended the programmein this training programme the legislators will get an excellent opportunity to understand the nittygritty of the budget khattar said adding that for the last 8 years he got an opportunity to understand all the activities related to the budget however for the last 3 years every time while presenting the budget as the finance minister he also gets a chance to know many untouched aspects of the budget such training programmes will also provide an opportunity for the mlas to understand the detailed information of the budget this also helps in preparing the state budget well and will become an ideal budget for other states as well he saidthe cm said that for this years budget the state government held 8 meetings with public representatives etc and discussed with 477 stakeholders these meetings were held with officials of all departments representatives of local bodies panchayatiati raj institutions industry and commerce agriculture education health service sector and real estate said sh manohar lalhe said that this time the state government has also formed 8 committees of mlas to discuss the budget a total of 74 mlas were included in these committees various departments were given to these committees for deliberations added the cm