Thursday, 02 February 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The budget is based on the ‘ Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ mantra of Prime Minister Modi: CM
Welcoming the Union Budget presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, the chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has said that the budget document is based on the ‘ Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ mantra of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said the budget focuses on inclusive development, priority to the deprived, infrastructural development, investment, capacity building and is dedicated to the financial sector and depicts the vision of the ‘Amrit Kal’. The CM said that today India is the fastest growing economy of the world under leadership of PM Modi and the per capita income of the country has doubled from the year 2014. In the last nine years the Indian economy has grown as the fifth biggest economy of the world.
Terming the budget as the first budget of Amrit Kal, the CM said that the budget has an outline for development of all sectors of the society. He said that the Union budget 2023-24 would strengthen infrastructure development and inclusive growth. Welcoming the decision to provide free ration for one more year, Dhami said it would ensure food and nutrition security for the poor. He said that an Agriculture corpus would be created to encourage young entrepreneurs to start agri start-ups and assistance would be provided to one crore farmers in next three years for adopting natural farming. He said that to promote dairy, fish culture and animal husbandry the credit target has been increased to Rs 20 lakh Crores.
The CM said that the PM -PVTG development mission would be started to bring about an improvement in the social-economic status of the tribal groups in India. The tourism would be taken up on a mission mode with the active participation of the States and with government and public partnership. He said that tourism is very important for economy of the State and the initiative of development of tourism sector in the budget would help in development of the State. The budget also focuses on the development of border areas under the Vibrant Village scheme.
He said that by bringing a new tax slab in the budget the finance minister has provided a great relief to middle class and salaried people of the country. The tax exemption limit has been increased and the budget has been special for the senior citizens and women. Dhami said that a new saving scheme for women has been proposed in which they would get an interest of 7.5 per cent on saving of Rs two lakhs. He added that special care of the poor, middle class, women, youth, entrepreneurs, farmers, artisans and senior citizens has been taken in the budget and it has a focus to develop the economy of the country. Dhami expressed confidence that Uttarakhand and its people would get immensely benefited by the Union budget
