PATNA, Jan. 16 -- The Budget session of the Bihar Vidhan Sabha will commence from February 2. An official notice was issued by the Vidhan Sabha secretariat on Thursday. The first day will commence with the Governor's address to the joint sitting of both the Houses at the Central Hall. He will present the blueprint of the government's future plans and the achievements so far. The same day the Bihar Economic Survey report will also be tabled. This will be the 20th report of Bihar Economic Survey, a practice started by the Nitish government in 2006-07. The Budget for 2026-27 will be presented February 3. Finance minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav will present the Budget. After that there will debate on the motion of thanks on the Governor's address. The first full Budget session of the new government, it will conclude on February 27. There will 19 sittings during the session. It will also be the first Budget session for Prem Kumar as Speaker. All eyes will be on the size of the Budget and the fiscal measures adopted in view of the big promises of the government, the announcement of 7-Resolves Programme with push to employment generation and industrialisation. The Budget will showcase the economic vision, development schemes and priorities of the government, while the opposition, though feeble, will try to corner the government. Last year's Budget had an outlay of Rs.3.17 lakh crore, an increase of Rs.38,169 crore or 13.69% from the 2024-25. It was followed by supplementary budgets exceeding Rs.90,000 crore. This year, experts say, apart from the explicit pre election freebies estimated at over Rs.40k crore, mass recruitment into government jobs has also sharply increased salary expenditure, now projected to exceed Rs.50k crore in the current financial year. With more recruitment in the pipeline, the government push for job creation and plan to take the Mahila Rozgaar Yojana to the next stage by providing up to Rs.2-lakh incentive to woman entrepreneurs, adequate budgetary provisions would have to be made this time....