Chandigarh, March 17 -- Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has said that the state government has made a provision of Rs 100 crore for the construction of the SYL canal in the Budget 2026-27 proposals, and the opposition's allegation that there is no mention of the SYL canal in the budget is baseless.

The Chief Minister was replying on Tuesday after the discussion on the Budget Estimates 2026-27 during the Budget Session of the Haryana Assembly.

He said that during the discussion on the budget, members of Congress stated that they had been reading the budget speech for three days and found no mention of the SYL canal.

They also claimed that in nearly 60 years of Haryana's formation, there has never been a budget without a referen...