Yogi Govt Presents A Rs 6.90 Lakh Crore Budget, The Biggest In The History Of UP
Lucknow, February 22 (TNA) The Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on Wednesday presented the biggest budget - of Rs 6.90 lakh crore in the history of the state. New schemes worth Rs 32.721 crores have been included in the budget.
In his budget speech, Finance Minister Suresh Khanna said that UP has a big contribution in the country's GDP and pointed out how the state government had recently organized a grand Global Investors Summit (GIS). Uttar Pradesh has become the engine of growth, he added.
Investment is coming in UP from India and abroad. The unemployment rate in UP has come down to 4.2 percent. This is an important achievement of the state. The UP government is continuously working for the development of the state.
More than 33 lakh crore has been invested in GIS. The growth rate of UP has increased. Investment is increasing in Uttar Pradesh, the FM further pointed out.
The high points of the budget include:
7248 crore for old age, farmer pension
1120 crore for disabled pension scheme
42 crore for leprosy pension scheme
100 crore for Chief Minister Jan Arogya Yojana
3600 crores for tablets and smartphones
Students will get tablets, smartphones
100 crores for seed fund for startups
60 crores for information technology startup policy
20 crores for Agriculture Accelerator Fund
1050 crore for Kanya Sumangala scheme
150 crore for marriage grant scheme
4032 crores for widow women
12 crores for the Chief Minister's Accidental Insurance Scheme
Arrangement of 5 crores for young lawyers
Target to provide 40 thousand new jobs
550 crores for the Defense Corridor project
200 crore for industrial corridor in Gorakhpur
One school in every mandal for the children of laborers
235 crore for Jhansi-Chitrakoot Link Expressway
1000 crores for housing of policemen
850 crore for new police commissionerate office, housing
10 crores for new SDRF vehicles
12,631 crore for National Rural Health Mission
1,655 crore to PM Self-reliant Healthy India Scheme
1,547 crore for the establishment of Mobile Unit Hospital
400 crores for Ayushman Bharat, PM Jan Arogya Yojana
320 crore for Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
100 crores for purchase of equipments at CHC
15 crores for PHC-CHC works
14 new medical colleges will be established
2491 crore 39 lakh for medical college
100 crores for the treatment of incurable diseases
25 crores for the establishment and development of Pharma Parks
200 crores for the establishment of Unity Mall
21159 crore 62 lakh for the construction of roads and bridges
1700 crores for the construction of railway over bridges
Rs 25,350 crore for Jal Jeevan Mission
317 crore for the implementation of solar energy policy
45 crores for the implementation of the state bio-energy policy
585 crore for Kanpur Metro
465 crore for Agra Metro Rail Project
3,000 crore for Chief Minister's urban expansion
2,500 crore for the Maha Kumbh Mela, 2025
100 crores for the construction of Kanha Gaushala
500 crore for proper development of urban roads
100 crore for aspirational city plan
600 crore for special plan of Bundelkhand
525 crore for special schemes of Purvanchal
5,966 crore for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
1203 crore for Chief Minister's Housing Scheme
85 crore to Chief Minister Panchayat Promotion Scheme
984 crore 54 lakh for National Agriculture Development Plan
750 crores for the maintenance of abandoned cattle
120 crores for the establishment of large cow protection centers
3 crore 44 lakh for sheep farming scheme
257 crore 50 lakh for whole sale fish market
10 crore for Chief Minister Matsya Sampada Yojana
5 crore for Nishadraj boat subsidy scheme
20,255 crore for Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
50 crores for free uniform distribution
650 crores for free sweater and shoe-stocking
100 crores for Sanskrit schools