Mayawati government's budget focuses on infrastructure
February 4th, 2010 - 8:31 pm ICT by IANS -
Lucknow, Feb 4 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government's annual budget of
Rs.153,000 crore, tabled in the state assembly here Thursday, provides
a major thrust to infrastructure, energy, information technology,
rural employment and health.
The tax-free budget has avoided any allocation towards Chief Minister
Mayawati's obsession — memorials and statues on which her government
has spent more than Rs.5,000 crore so far.
And though Mayawati has vehemently criticised the central government
for denying Uttar Pradesh a special economic package of Rs.85,000
crore for development of the backward Bundelkhand and Purvanchal
regions, the budget has allocated just Rs.390 crore for this.
The government, however, has allocated Rs.8,000 crore to the power
sector to boost industrial development.
Besides, schemes worth Rs.9,226 crore were forwarded to the Rural
Electrification Corp for providing electricity to some 127,000
villages.
A provision of Rs.5,808 crore was also made for the construction of
roads and bridges during 2010-11, besides Rs.4,758 towards
construction and maintenance of hospitals.
On the IT front, provision has been made for establishing public
service centres in 18,000 villages to provide services like issue of
birth and death certificates, ration cards, residence and caste
certificates and registration in employment exchanges.
The budget also envisages setting up 28 new courts "exclusively for
hearing cases of corruption".
In order to promote self-employment, the budget provides for
establishment of 9,500 village industry units in the coming financial
year, for which a provision of Rs.247 crore has been made.
It also talks about providing employment to 25,000 weavers, besides
creating 900,000 new small entrepreneurs under the urban
self-employment scheme.
An allocation of Rs.400 crore has been made to benefit 75 lakh
families under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
Interestingly, Finance Minister Lalji Verma kept fumbling for details
on being confronted by routine queries at a press briefing after he
tabled the budget.
A flustered Verma finally excused himself on the pretext of going back
to the house, following which the press was briefed by cabinet
secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh.
Asked to comment on the absence of any attempt by the government to
curb rising prices, Singh said: "There is precious little that any
state government can do to curb prices."
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