State BJP leaders have welcomed the maiden general budget of the Narendra Modi Government and called it a budget ‘serving all sections of the society.’
BJP State President and Union Minister of State Vishnudev Sai said that the budget has announced hike in the royalty to states with mining activities and Chhattisgarh will be benefitted most from the announcement.The budget has announced an IIT to be opened in Chhattisgarh and this will help the promising students of Chhattisgarh in getting higher education in the State itself.
He thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for presenting a successful budget.BJP State Vice-president Sachidanand Upasane, Dr Dayaram Sahu, Siddharth Singh, Sudha Verma, Prabha Dubey and Raimuni Bhagat in a joint statement said that in its declaration at the time of lok Sabha elections, the BJP had promised development of all and the budget is a reflection of the promise.
The budget sets a target of 4% Agriculture Development Rate for which provisions of Agriculture Development Fund and agriculture loan besides new farmers channel, soil health card and cheap farmer loan have been made in the budget. All these features of the budget make it pro-people, they added.State BJP spokepersons Shivratan Sharma, Bhupendra Sawanni, Sanjay Srivastava, Shrichand Sundrani and Yashwant Jain said that the budget will prove beneficial to all sections.
The income tax exemption limit has been raised from Rs2 lakh to Rs2.5 lakh while exemption in home loan interest has been increased to Rs2 lakh. This is great relief to common man. The ‘One Rank One Pension’ scheme for the Army will boost the morale of soldiers. The budget has also emphasized on saving girl child and safety of women. All the features of the budget are laudable.
BJP Mahila Morcha State President Shobha Soni, BJYM State President Anurag Singhdeo, Sandeep Sharma, Kedranath Gupta, Rustam Bhati, Mirza Eijaz Beig and others welcomed the budget which has provision for modernization of ‘Madarsas’ besides proper attention given to Buddhist pilgrims. Proper attention has been provided on expansion of Railway network in north eastern states and proper care has been taken for promotion of sports activities in Jammu and Kashmir.The package for Kashmiri migrants will benefit the most to Kashmiri Pandits.
BJP Raipur District President Ashok Pandey said that Ganga river is a symbol of national belief and government has shown its commitment by preparing a scheme to clean it as mentioned in the budget.He thanked the Prime Minister and Finance Minister for a good budget.