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CENTRAL Victorian schools, hospitals and human service providers have featured in today's state budget.

Treasurer Kim Wells confirmed Castlemaine and Charlton hospitals, Castlemaine Secondary College and Golden Square Primary School would all receive multi-million dollar upgrades.

A new multi-million multidisciplinary centre to support victims and tackle sexual assault and child abuse will be built in Bendigo.

Castlemaine Hospital will receive a $10 million upgrade. The project will include relocating and refurbishing the urgent care department, construction of a second theatre and upgrades for the day surgery and recovery areas.

Castlemaine Secondary College will receive $7 million for modernisations.

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Golden Square Primary School will receive $5 million new learning and administration areas.

The government is yet to confirm the cost of the new multidisciplinary centre, which will include police officers, Department of Human Services child support workers and Loddon Mallee Centre Against Child Abuse/Sexual Assault staff.

The government has allocated $2.2 million for more early childhood development workers in the Loddon Mallee, Grampians and Gippsland regions.

The budget contains funding to buy new trains for V/Line but the number of carriages and what lines they will service is yet to be confirmed.

Funding for two new overtaking lanes on the Melbourne-Lancefield Road was also in the budget.

A Department of Premier and Cabinet office, which Premier Ted Baillieu opened last year as a pilot program, will remain in Bendigo for another year.

As previously announced, the budget included $22.7 million for a new Charlton hospital and 45 new beds at the Malmsbury Youth Detention Centre.

A new Bendigo court precinct and an upgrade of the notorious Ravenswood intersection, where the Calder and Calder Alternate highways join, failed to attract state funding.

The Treasurer described the budget as tough but fair.

He said the government had inherited an unsustainable budget that would have achieved a $10 billion deficit in four years if spending had continued at the former government's rate.

The 2012-13 forecasts an operating surplus of $155 million.

"Going into deficit for this government was not an option," Mr Wells told reporters.

The government expects net debt to fall six per cent by 2016.

The 2012-13 budget included a $5.8 billion infrastructure spend.

Key projects:

- $22.7m for a new Charlton hospital;

- $10 million Castlemaine hospital upgrades;

- $7 million Castlemaine Secondary College modernisation;

- $5 million Golden Square Primary School modernisation;

- Multidisciplinary centre to support victims and tackle sexual assault and child abuse;

- Two new overtaking lanes on Melbourne-Lancefield Road;

- Funding to keep a Department of Premier and Cabinet office in Bendigo for another year;

- New train carriages for V/Line;

- $2.2 million for more early childhood development workers in the Loddon Mallee, Grampians and Gippsland;

- 45 extra beds at Malmsbury Youth Detention Centre.

Missed out:

- Bendigo Court redevelopment;

- Ravenswood intersection.