Thiruvananthapuram: Movie tickets and beer and wine prices are to be hiked and a 'flood cess' slapped in cash-strapped Kerala as the CPI(M)-led LDF government presented its first post-flood budget on Thursday in an effort to mobilise additional resources to rebuild the state.

As the southern state faced a severe financial crunch, Finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac presented the budget for 2019-20 fiscal, giving thrust to a massive rebuilding exercise. He proposed 25 new projects to resurrect Kerala after the devastation caused by the deadliest flood of the century last August. "This is a budget for creating a new Kerala," Isaac said stating that Rs 1,000 crore has been earmarked for the 'Rebuild Kerala' initiative in the plan. Seeking to mobilise additional revenue, a 0.25 per cent "flood cess" would be levied on all goods coming under the Fifth schedule, including gold, silver and platinum ornaments on the value of supply, the minister said.