Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna tabled the over Rs 6.15 lakh crore budget of the Yogi Adityanath Government 2.0 in the UP Assembly on Thursday.
Before being tabled in the House, the budget was passed at a Cabinet meeting chaired by the Chief Minister at his official residence on Thursday morning.
The Rs 6,15,518.97 crore budget for 2022-23 fiscal has a provision of Rs 39,181.10 crore for new schemes. In the last 2021-22 fiscal, the Yogi government had presented a budget of Rs 5,50,270.78 crore.
Soon after the budget was tabled in the House, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath tweeted, "The latest budget is focused on ensuring self-reliance in the State."
Yogi Adityanath promised that the budget would be dedicated to the overall development of Uttar Pradesh.
"The economy of the state is improving rapidly. We believe that we will be successful in taking the state's economy to $1 trillion," Finance Minister Suresh Khanna said while tabling the budget.
Seated next to the chief minister in the assembly, Khanna said that Rs 276.66 crore had been proposed for Uttar Pradesh Special Security Force entrusted with the task of securing courts and historical and religious places, including Ayodhya, Kashi and Mathura.
For the Police Emergency Management System, the finance minister said that the second phase of the 112 scheme would start in this fiscal and a provision of Rs 730.88 crore had been proposed for strengthening it.
"For women, the budget has proposed setting up of cyber help desks at district level and a provision of Rs 72.50 crore has been made for women empowerment schemes. A provision of Rs 20 crore has also been proposed for safety and empowerment of women and their skill development under Mission Shakti in micro and small scale industries sector," he added.
The finance minister informed the House, "The budget has proposed Rs 650 crore under farmers' accident scheme and there is a provision to provide a maximum of Rs 5 lakh in case of accidental death/disability of farmers under the scheme. A total of 15,000 solar pumps will be set up in 2022-23 fiscal and 60.20 lakh quintal seeds are proposed to be distributed to farmers. A target to distribute 119.30 lakh metric tons of fertilisers has also been proposed. A provision of Rs 1,000 crore is proposed for the Chief Minister's Minor Irrigation Scheme."
Khanna further said, "Free tablets and smartphones scheme for the youth was started in December 2021 and till now approximately 12 lakh tablets /smart phones have been distributed. As per the Bharatiya Janata Party's Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra, two crore smart phones/tablets are to be distributed to the youth in the next five years. Besides, Rs 1,500 crore has been proposed in the budget for Swami Vivekananda Youth Empowerment Scheme."
"Also, to promote entrepreneurship and innovation in various fields among youth, under the new UP Start-up Policy-2020, a target to establish a total of 100 incubators and 10,000 startups in the next five years has been set. With the objective of providing coaching to students preparing for competitions near their homes, Chief Minister Abhyudaya Yojana has been implemented by the government in all divisional headquarters, which is now being expanded to all districts of the state and a provision of Rs 30 crore is proposed for the it,” the minister said.
Khanna further said that a provision of Rs 10 crore had been proposed to provide financial assistance to young lawyers for purchasing books and magazines for the first three years of work.