Union Minister of Mines, Steel, labour and Employment and Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Narendra Singh Tomar said that the budget of the State is poor, village and farmers oriented.
Tomar in a statement said, “The State Government has relieved the common man by reducing VAT while by making the instruments used in the agriculture tax free encouraged the farming community for new agricultural crafts.” Tomar further said that the State Government would bear fifty per cent of electricity bill of farmers. This would make agriculture a profitable business. “On the one hand framework for road revolution is being made in the state and on the other hand Chief Minister Farm Road Scheme would be a boon for the farmers,” he added.
The senior BJP leader lauding the farsightedness of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Finance Minister Jayant Malaiya for allocating additional budget for agriculture and farming said that the state government by culminating its resolution of making agriculture a profit making business has won the hearts of the farmers. By taking remarkable initiative in the direction of delivering water in every farm and making provision of adequate amount for crop insurance signals that the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government has fulfilled the promises it had made with the people of the state, he added.
Tomar welcomed the State Government’s decision of opening three new medical colleges in the State and running of metro trains in Bhopal and Indore are step for the golden development of the State.