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Which among the following states, for the first time, removed the veil of secrecy over budget preparation and released the 'draft budget' for the year 2002-03 for public debate?

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Think of the state that ran an active e-governance and citizen-participation drive in the early 2000s under its Vision 2020 plan.
Updated On: Jul 13, 2026
  • Karnataka
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • Orissa
  • Chhattisgarh
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The Correct Option is B

Solution and Explanation

This question checks whether you know which state government experimented with an open, public draft budget for 2002-03, a step that was new to Indian state finances at that time.

  1. Karnataka: Karnataka has a name for grassroots participatory planning through grama sabhas, but this is local-level input, not a state releasing a full draft budget for public review before the final one.
  2. Andhra Pradesh: Under N. Chandrababu Naidu, the state was running an active e-governance and citizen-participation drive under its Vision 2020 program, and as part of that it published a draft budget for 2002-03 for citizens and industry to react to before the final budget was tabled.
  3. Orissa: In this period Orissa was dealing with a debt and fiscal crisis and was focused on cutting expenditure, not on opening up its budget process to public comment.
  4. Chhattisgarh: Formed only in November 2000, the state was still building its core administration in 2002 and had no history of such a reform to draw on.

Only Andhra Pradesh matches the description of releasing a draft budget for public debate for the year 2002-03, so it is the correct choice.

Let's summarize:

  • Andhra Pradesh released a draft budget for 2002-03 as part of its Vision 2020 transparency drive.
  • Karnataka's grama sabha planning and Orissa's fiscal crisis are different issues and do not fit here, and Chhattisgarh was too new a state to have pioneered it.

So the correct answer is Andhra Pradesh, option (2).

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