BUDGET VIEW

Indian newspapers carried the following stories related to the budget in their print or Web editions on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

LATEST STORIES:

* The legislation on food security, that could cost 620 billion rupees ($13.45 billion), is unlikely to receive any allocation in this federal budget. - DNA

EARLIER STORIES:

* The defence ministry is expecting a 15-20 percent increase in it budget allocation for the next fiscal due to rise in expenditure on its modernisation drive and commitments following pay review.--The Financial Express.

* The federal government's flagship programme the National Rural Health Mission is expected to get a small increase over last year's allocation of 139.3 billion rupees due to budgetary constraints.

Source : http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-46350220100222