The Budget 2025-26 is scheduled to be presented on March 17 by CM Sukhu. The Budget is likely to be passed on March 26, following two days of discussion. A total of 963 questions have been filed by legislators for the session. Hours before the start of the session on Monday, the Congress legislature party meeting will be held to formulate the floor strategy. The BJP legislators met at a private hotel in Shimla on Sunday under the leadership of Jai Ram Thakur. The opposition BJP’s state unit chief hit out at the Sukhu government for using funds of temple trusts, acquired by the state government in the past, for budgetary schemes. The reading level of Himachal children is the best in the country, according to the Annual Status of Education Report found the state’s PWD Minister Vikramaditya Singh. Earlier in the week, the state voiced the state’s demand that the Centre should provide special financial assistance for projects related to urban infrastructure and digital governance.