BHUBANESWAR: Finance Minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadei on Monday started the pre-budget consultation process before finalising the State budget for 2012-13. Though experts are of the opinion that the State’s economy has improved over the years, they disapproved of the subsidy on different schemes announced by the Government. Several experts at the meeting, including former minister of state for Finance Panchanan Kanungo, maintained that the State Government should stop the Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme which is a burden on the exchequer.