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SME Times News Bureau | 12 Feb, 2016
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav on Friday presented a Rs.3.46 lakh crore budget for
2016-17 - the biggest-ever in the state - focussing primarily on
innovation, infrastructure, health and education.
The fifth
budget presented by Akhilesh Yadav, who holds the finance portfolio,
would also be his last in this tenure as assembly elections in the state
are scheduled for next year. It was 14.56 percent from the Rs 3.02 lakh
crore budget he presented in the last financial year.
The budget
has recommended ten percent increase in value added tax (VAT) and the
same increase in excise tax, while Rs.2.50 crore has also been earmarked
for the farmer accidental insurance scheme.
The chief minister
presented a Rs.27,758 crore supplementary budget in which farmers and
the power sector were major beneficiaries. An amount of Rs.814 crore has
been given for the Lucknow Metro Rail project while Rs.100 crore has
been allocated to the hyped, and now-shelved, scheme of free laptop
distribution to class 12 students.
An amount of Rs.2,057 crore
has been marked for the drought relief measures in the 50 drought-hit
districts of the state and the special needs fund for Bundelkhand has
been increased from Rs.71.50 crore to Rs.200 crore.
Payment of
Rs.1,336 crore has been allocated for cane arrears while the
Agra-Lucknow expressway has been given Rs.4,003 crore. Rs.11 crore has
also been allotted for improving traffic systems in 12 cities.
The
chief minister, who presented the budget amid disruptions and
slogan-shouting by the opposition legislators of the Bahujan Samaj Party
(BSP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, later said that
he can proudly say that all promises made by the Samajwadi Party
(SP)during the 2012 state assembly polls have been fulfilled.
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