Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath termed the Union Budget 2022-23 as progressive and beneficial for farmers, youth and women. He praised and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for introducing a budget that catered to the needs of all sections of society.
Commenting on the Union Budget 2022-23 on Tuesday, Yogi said that the minimum support price (MSP) provisions would help double the income of farmers.
While presenting the Budget, the Union finance minister said that a new scheme would be launched in PPP mode under which farmers would be provided with digital and hi-tech services. She also said that the use of ‘Kisan Drones’ would be promoted for crop assessment, digitisation of land records, spraying of insecticides and nutrients.
The chief minister said the initiatives announced in the budget would help in creating 60 lakh jobs and UP having the maximum youth population would be benefitted the most. Yogi also praised the Modi government for introducing schemes like Mission Shakti, Mission Vatsalya that would empower women.
He expressed happiness over the implementation of Ken-Betwa Link Project, which aims to provide irrigation benefits to 9.08 lakh hectares of farmers land and drinking water supply to over 60 lakh people.
A provision of Rs 1,400 crore has been made for it in the Union Budget 2022-23.
Yogi also highlighted the announcement of 400 new Vande Bharat trains that would help in transportation. He also praised the Gati Shakti National Master Plan which is described as a transformative approach for economic growth and sustainable development. As many as 100 PM Gati Shakti cargo terminals will be constructed across the nation to boost the infrastructure for logistics. The chief minister said that the initiative would help in building infrastructure across the country and help in developing roads, railways, airports, ports and waterways.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Union Budget 2022-23 laid down the foundation to steer the economic developments for the next 25 years.
Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said that the Union budget would benefit all sections of society, particularly women, youth, farmers and traders and it would prove to be a big boon for organic farming.
State Finance Minister Suresh Khanna said that UP would be the main beneficiary of 60 lakh new jobs to be created as per the announcement made in the Union budget. He said the number of farmers benefiting from the MSP would increase as the budget in this head had been increased. He said the hike in the outlay for the infrastructure projects would be a booster to mega projects like expressways, airports and rapid rail projects.
Provisions related to Uttar Pradesh in 2022-23 Union Budget
• UP will get Rs 1,46,498 crore as devolution of state share in central taxes and duties while Rs 15,000 crore will be provided to the state as Finance Commission grants.
• UP will get Rs 1,900 crore for Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) and Rs 12,000 for Jal Jeevan Mission.
• Estimated expenditure on national highway projects by the Central government in UP in 2022-23 is Rs 16,350 crore. Some of the important projects to be taken up in 2022-23 are Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway (63 km), Varanasi-Kolkata Expressway (642 km) and Gorakhpur-Siliguri Corridor (520 km) and international connectivity between Sonauli and Gorakhpur (80 km).
• During 2022-23 fiscal. 32 important projects with a cumulative length of 1,533 km with total capital cost of Rs 46,627 crore.
• Ken-Betwa river linking project costing Rs 44,605 crore will also be implemented.
• Estimated expenditure on various schemes of the development of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation is Rs 957 crore. This includes Rs 500m crore for Namami Gange and Rs 170 crore for Atal Bhujal Yojana and Rs 194 crore for accelerated irrigation benefit programme and command area and water management.
• Rs 6,241 crore will be provided for Samagra Shiksha Abhiyaan.