Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who also holds the finance portfolio, tabled the first supplementary grants for the current fiscal 2016-17 to the tune of Rs 25,347.86 crores. Major part of the supplementary demand is for the ongoing development projects launched by the present Government. Chief Minister tabled the Supplementary Budget in the State Assembly in the absence of the opposition parties—BJP, BSP and the Congress, who were earlier evicted by the speaker for creating pandemonium in the house. The supplementary grants are likely to be voted by the house on Wednesday.
As per the proposals in the supplementary grants as much as Rs 2,000 crores has been sought for distributing compensation to the farmers, whose crops were destroyed in the unseasonal rains and hail and storm while Rs 800 crores has been allotted for purchase of land and construction of the Samajwadi Poorwanchal express linking lucknow with Ballia.
Etawah, the home district of CM, along with Kannauj the lok Sabha constituency of his wife Dimple Yadav, also got a significant share in the supplementary grants.
The state the government has sought Rs 120.02 crores for construction of an international standard cricket stadium in Saifai, in Etawah district besides a sports college with an expenditure of Rs 4.10 crores. Saifai would also have a multi-level parking at the tourist centre with a cost of Rs 25 crores.