Advocating that his Government was working hard to improve infrastructure in the state Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that every penny of supplementary grant would be used in building roads and improving power in the villages as well as in cities.
“Despite the budgetary allocation for this fiscal were released late the Samajwadi Party Government is working full steam to implement pro-people policies and building infrastructure in the state,” Yadav said while answering the debate on supplementary grants in Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday.
Yadav, who is also finance minister of the state had tabled a supplementary grant of Rs 14856 crore in the state assembly on Monday. “Ours is the only government in the country that had fulfilled all the promises Samajwadi Party had made during elections. We are for the poor and therefore our Government has launched Samajwadi Party Pension Scheme that will benefit over 40 lakh poor families,” he said and added that Government is operating this scheme through its own resources and would extend benefits to more families.
Talking about other projects he said the Agra-lucknow Expressway would speed up commutation. The farmers have readily handed over land for this project because Samajwadi Party Government had suitably compensated them.
“Government is also constructing bird sanctuary in Mainpuri and Elephant Rescue centre would be set up near Etawah,” he said. Yadav said Government has made tremendous progress in health sector. New hospitals are being built. Capacity of many hospitals has increased and number of seats for MBBS and para-medics students have
also increased.
“The Government is working in other sector like tourism where heritage tourism has been given a new meaning. The government is developing heritage arc that will comprise lucknow, Varanasi and Agra,” he said. Elaborating on the future planning he said government will pump in more money for the solar energy projects. All the houses in lohia scheme are now getting power through solar system and there is a need to expand this project,” he said.
The opposition questioned the need to have supplementary grant whenv
the government has failed to utilize the budgetary allocations. The BSP said that this government has introduced projects giving new names that were in operation during BSP regime .
later the grants were passed by voice vote.