Tamil Nadu Budget 2026-27 LIVE updates: FM Thennarasu to present interim Budget ahead of polls

Tamil Nadu Budget 2026-27 LIVE updates: FM Thennarasu to present interim Budget ahead of polls

Suppose’s Economic Explore 2025-26 acknowledged Tamil Nadu can pause its trillion-greenback financial system milestone by 2031 if it sustains the 2024-25 nominal enhance fee of 16%

Up up to now – February 17, 2026 10:08 am IST

Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on the day of the presentation of State Budget in March 2025. File photo for representative purposes.

Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on the day of the presentation of Suppose Funds in March 2025. File photo for representative functions.
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The Suppose’s duration in-between Funds for the financial 300 and sixty five days 2026-2027 might be offered within the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Tuesday (February 17, 2026) with Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu presenting the Suppose’s duration in-between Funds earlier than the Assembly elections this 300 and sixty five days.

Also Read | Tamil Nadu Economic Explore says trillion-greenback financial system achievable at contemporary enhance fee

The Economic Explore of Tamil Nadu 2025-26, handed over to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Monday (February 16, 2026), acknowledged the Suppose’s per capita earnings enhance has repeatedly outpaced the nationwide moderate. Tamil Nadu can pause its trillion-greenback financial system milestone by 2031 if it sustains the 2024-25 nominal enhance fee of 16%, “with an assumption of 2% (medium-time duration fee) upward push within the fee of greenback against rupee each year within the medium time duration,” it added.

The Finance Minister will furthermore demonstrate within the Home the query for come grants for the 300 and sixty five days 2026-2027 and extra expenditure for 2025-2026 for its approval, on Friday (February 20, 2026).

Be conscious live updates right here

FM Thangam Thennarasu to demonstrate Tamil Nadu’s duration in-between Funds

  • February 17, 2026 10:08

    Allocation for training

    Listing the budgetary allocations for the length of presentation of Tamil Nadu’s duration in-between Funds, Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu acknowledged ₹5,463 crore has been distributed in the direction of social security pension plot for widows, destitutes and the elderly, ₹forty eight,534 crore for faculty training and ₹8,505 for elevated training – B. Kolappan

  • February 17, 2026 10:03

    For the welfare of the disabled

    Moreover offering four per cent reservation in appointments for the disabled persons, the Tamil Nadu authorities has furthermore ensured provision for his or her promotion in jobs, talked about Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu whereas adding that ₹1,471 crore has been distributed for the welfare of persons with disablities – B. Kolappan

  • February 17, 2026 10:00

    T.N. Assembly decked up

  • February 17, 2026 09:56

    ‘CM Breakfast plot boosted scholar attendance’

    The Chief Minister’s Breakfast Diagram elevated college scholar’s attendance in classrooms and their learning abilities, talked about Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu on the Legislative Assembly in Chennai on Tuesday – B. Kolappan

  • February 17, 2026 09:53

    Tamil Nadu’s funding on museums

    At a complete Funds outlay of ₹285 crore, Chola museum, Navai museum and Noyyal museum are being established. Extra, world-class Keezhadi and Porunai museums had been inaugurated and had been broadly preferred, acknowledged Thangam Thennarasu whereas presenting the Suppose’s duration in-between Funds on Tuesday. 

  • February 17, 2026 09:50

    On ‘Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam’

    Haling the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam (KMUT) as a pioneer plot, the Finance Minister, whereas presenting Tamil Nadu’s duration in-between Funds acknowledged, the success of the plot is printed by the very fact that it is being adopted by other States. The contemporary credit of ₹5,000 to the memoir of 1.31 females has drawn the consideration of the nation – B. Kolappan

  • February 17, 2026 09:Forty five

    Funding elevated for females’s self-support groups

    A unparalleled conception has been devised to boost exports, decrease inflation, and safeguard the welfare of workers. Funding has been elevated for females’s self-support groups; We have confidence executed unparalleled enhance in food manufacturing, says Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu

  • February 17, 2026 09:41

    Translation of Periyar’s works

    ‘Periyar’ E.V. Ramasamy’s works had been translated in 27 languages together with Gujarati, French and Arabic, says the Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu whereas presenting the duration in-between Funds of the ballot-trek Suppose – B. Kolappan

  • February 17, 2026 09:35

    FM gifts TN duration in-between Funds

    Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu begins to demonstrate the duration in-between Funds of the Suppose. He says the Funds has been ready to earnings the marginalised individuals. 

  • February 17, 2026 09:32

    AIADMK mocks the authorities’s budget with ear piercing ceremony invite

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  • February 17, 2026 09:24

    Closing Funds of the DMK Govt.’s sixth tenure

    Fort St. George, which houses the Tamil Nadu Assembly, has been decorated with banana trees, flowers and festoons as the DMK authorities is ready to demonstrate it duration in-between Funds for the election 300 and sixty five days. 

    Here is the closing budget of the sixth tenure of the DMK authorities that captured power in 1967.

  • February 17, 2026 08:50

    Economic Explore’s dispute on Tamil Nadu’s welfare programmes

    Tamil Nadu authorities has repeatedly elevated its expenditure on the social sector, rising from ₹1,13,268 crore in 2021-22 to ₹1,57,864 crore in 2025-26 (RE). Over time, the Suppose has built one among India’s most intensive and innovative welfare architectures, the Explore acknowledged.

    Programmes equivalent to Naan Mudhalvan, Pudhumai Penn, Tamizh Pudhalvan, the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Diagram, Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam, and unparalleled-scale housing and concrete renewal initiatives expand capabilities, decrease household possibility, and toughen aspirations. These interventions are no longer merely redistributive; they stabilise consumption, shield domestic query, and enable workers to steer sure of ache-driven employment.

  • February 17, 2026 08:33

    Tamil Nadu’s per capita earnings enhance repeatedly outpaced nationwide moderate: Economic Explore

    The Economic Explore 2025-26 furthermore talked about that Tamil Nadu’s per capita earnings enhance has repeatedly outpaced the nationwide moderate. 

    In 2024-25, per capita earnings reached ₹3.62 lakh, which is 1.77 cases elevated than the nationwide moderate of ₹2.05 lakh, making Tamil Nadu the third-ideal Suppose when it involves per capita earnings. 

    Despite accounting for under 4% of India’s land set of abode and 6% of its inhabitants, the Suppose contributed 9.4% to the nationwide GDP in 2024-25. Its Rude Suppose Domestic Product at contemporary costs reached ₹31.19 lakh crore in 2024-25, reflecting a nominal enhance fee of 16% and a staunch enhance fee of 11.2% – the ideal among main States.

  • February 17, 2026 08:18

    Tamil Nadu Economic Explore 2025-26

    Tamil Nadu Economic Explore 2026 says trillion-greenback financial system achievable at contemporary enhance fee

    Tamil Nadu’s Economic Explore initiatives one thousand billion-greenback financial system by 2031, contingent on sustained high enhance rates no matter possible greenback fluctuations.

  • February 17, 2026 07:59

    Tamil Nadu Funds: FM Thennarasu to demonstrate Suppose’s duration in-between Funds this day

    The Suppose’s duration in-between Funds for the financial 300 and sixty five days 2026-2027 might be offered within the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Tuesday (February 17, 2026) with Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu presenting the Suppose’s duration in-between Funds earlier than the Assembly elections this 300 and sixty five days.

    He’ll furthermore demonstrate within the Home the query for come grants for the 300 and sixty five days 2026-2027 and extra expenditure for 2025-2026 for its approval, on Friday (February 20, 2026).

Published – February 17, 2026 07:46 am IST

The Hindu

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