Presenting a please-all R60,303 crore Budget, Orissa finance minister Prasana Acharya doled out largesses to the voters keeping the assembly election, due in May 2014, in mind

Pocket money for youth, free mobiles for farmers, pre-paid sim cards for fishermen, blankets to aged people are what the government has promised in the Budget. Taking a cue from Karnataka, the state government for the first time presented the Budget in two parts—Agriculture Budget Part I and General Budget Part II—in the House.