UP budget 2022-23: Yogi govt to present biggest ever paperless budget of Rs 6 lakh cr today; key expectations
UP budget 2022-23: The first state budget of the Yogi Adityanath 2.0 government will be presented today. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) will focus on fulfilling the promises made in the BJP’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ for the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The focus of the budget will be on education, health, youth, and women, as well as on the creation of infrastructure, agriculture, and jobs for the youth.
The state’s Finance Minister Suresh Khanna, will be presenting the Budget later in the day. Asked about the size of the Budget, Khanna said: “We had a Budget size of Rs 5.66 lakh crore (including supplementary budget) in 2021-2022. Every year, the size goes up due to inflation. So, we will have a higher budgetary size which may go up to Rs 6 lakh crore or more.” “Our economy is growing day by day. Our GSDP is going up. It was Rs 12.47 lakh crore when we came to power in 2017. Our GSDP may have gone up to around Rs 20 lakh crore now,” he added.
Here’s key expectations
- Mobilising additional resources to give a boost to the economy of Uttar Pradesh
- Women, youth and farmers will be given priority in the budget
- Free electricity to the farmers for irrigation
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