Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who is also the Finance minister, tabled supplementary budget for the current fiscal to the tune of Rs 7112.39 crore in the state assembly.
The government has sought additional Rs 400 crore for the distribution of unemployment allowances to the youth and purchase of a new aircraft for the government fleet spending Rs 40 crore.The government has also sought Rs 170 crore for expansion and modernisation of airports and air strips in the state.
A major chunk of the supplementary budget has gone for payment of dues of Rs 250 crore to NTPC for power purchase, Rs 100 crore to UP Power Corporation limited for subsidy in the loss and Rs 226 crore to the UPPCl for revenue loss. Rs 22.87 crores have been kept for pending power bills of the power loom units.
Rs 41.73 lakh would be spent for modernisation and computerisation of CM's office while Rs 50 crore has been kept for the ambitious Agra-lucknow Greenway expressway.
The state legislature had already passed the main budget on February 19 of Rs 2,21,201.19 crore. The supplementary budget seeks an additional budgetary grant of Rs 7112,39,07,000 in which Rs 4193,45,16 would be for the non-plan head and remaining Rs 2918,93,91 would be for the plan schemes.
The supplementary budget of the UP government seeks Rs 100 crore for the arrangements of the lok Sabha elections by the Election Commission besides Rs 109 crore has been granted for election photo identity cards, electoral rolls and pending dues of the 2012 assembly elections.The budget also seeks additional funds for veterinary college at Azamgarh, Dairy complex at lucknow and computerisation of PDS. Rs 4.52 crore has been sanctioned for a AstroTurf andGymnasium at Etawah, Rs 5 crore for a cricket stadium and Rs 5 crore for a sports college at Saifai.
The government has also sanctioned Rs 100 crore for the lohia Gramin Awas scheme, Rs 1.18 crore for hand-loom weavers insurances and Rs 50 lakhs for power-loom weavers insurances.
The Samajwadi Party government has granted Rs 8.55 crore for payment of compensation for purchasing of land for AIIMS at Rae Bareli and will spend Rs 4.34 crore for decreasing the child mortality.
In the health second, Rs 15 crore has been given to Rural Institute of Medical Sciences, Saifai for construction of building, Rs 15 crore for 500-bed hospital at Jhansi medical college and Rs 5 crore for Badaun Medical college. For Kannuaj, the parliamentary constituency of Dimple Yadav, wife of the CM, Rs 10 crore were given for Para-medical institute, while Rs 5 crore each was given for heart and cancer centers to be set up at the Kannauj medical college.The government has also given Rs 10 crore for construction of 500-bed children ward at Gorakhpur medical college hospital.