Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said the next financial year's budget to be presented shortly would have an outlay of Rs 6,600 crore. The figure was thrice the amount for the first budget after he took over as Chief Minister three years ago. Addressing a Congress rally here, he said this was proof enough of his claims that Haryana had made unprecedented progress during the past three years under the Congress rule. He said it also indicated that he was taking the state in the right direction for making it the number one state in the country. Hooda said the major problem Haryana was facing was that of power shortage but he had inherited this problem. However, he was trying to buy power from other states at considerably high rates to keep supply to the maximum. He said by the time his term came to an end Haryana would have solved this problem to a large extent, as many of the projects he had started would be generating power by that time. The Chief Minister said his political opponents had been exposed for their corrupt practices and favouritism. People of Haryana had realised that only the Congress was capable of delivering the goods. He inaugurated a new bus stand and a tehsil complex here and announced that an industrial training institute, a rest house and a stadium would also be built here. He announced grants of Rs 50 lakh each to 10 surrounding villages, including Kumbha, Thurana, Petwad, Data, Gurana, Badala, Putthi, Ugalan, Badchhappar and Baghawar. Incidentally, transport minister Mange Ram Gupta attended the inauguration of the bus stand in his capacity as transport minister. However, he did not attend the rally and left Narnaund immediately after the bus stand inauguration fuelling rumours that he was developing differences with Hooda. HPCC chief Phool Chand Mullana and working president Kuldeep Sharma were among those who attended the rally. According to PTI, Hooda announced that having waived off interest on cooperative loans of small farmers, petty shopkeepers and artisans, the state government was now considering on how to waive off the remaining debt of these poor people. The scheme to waive off interest on cooperative loans aimed at benefiting the poor to the tune of Rs 830 crore and so far they had been benefi ed by Rs 400 crore.