The Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi Government on Tuesday presented a ₹60,000 crore budget the financial year 2019-2020. Presenting the Budget in the Assembly, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia who also have Finance Portfolio under him said that the Budget has been dedicated to Soldiers martyred in the Pulwama Terror Attack.
Deputy CM Sisodia further said that this budget is “two times more” than the one presented in 2014-15. In 2014-15, The Delhi has a budget of 30,940 crores.
"ये देश को जोड़ने वाला बजट है, तोड़ने वाला नहीं ।
इस बजट का फायदा दिल्ली के हर गरीब और मध्यम वर्गीय परिवार को मिलेगा ना कि चंद रसूखदार पूंजीपतियों को" – दिल्ली विधान सभा में उपमुख्यमंत्री @msisodia #DelhiBudget pic.twitter.com/9TbZktqzfU
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) February 26, 2019
The Delhi Assembly session began with a standing ovation to the Indian Air Force for carrying out pre-dawn air strikes on terror camps inside Pakistani territory.
“The budget estimates for 2019-20 are pegged at ₹60,000 crore which is two times more than the budget presented in 2014-15,” Sisodia said.
A ₹53,000 crore was presented last year.
HIGHLIGHTS OF DELHI BUDGET 2019-2020
- Under Entrepreneurship Curriculum, Class 11 and 12 students to be given ₹1000, Higher Technical education students to be given ₹5000 as seed capital to develop a viable business plan.
- Allocation of ₹7,485 crore for the health sector in its budget, with ₹588 crore being proposed for construction of new hospitals and re-modelling of existing ones.
- The budget also said 189 Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics have been set up and 333 more such clinics will be set up by the end of June 2019. About 40 lakh persons have availed health services at ‘Mohalla Clinics’ in the current financial year up to December 2018, Sisodia said.
- Delhi Government Allocated 50 crores allocated for ‘Advocate Welfare Fund’.
- 13,000 seats to be added to engineering and polytechnic colleges of Delhi. ₹527 crores allocated for the year 2019-20
- Education gets 26% of the total budgetary allocation for the year 2019-20.
- Delhi Govt to provide grants to educational institutions matching those grants received from the industry or other sources for research and development.
- An outlay of Rs 588 crore has also been proposed for construction of new hospitals and re-modelling of existing Delhi government hospitals, the deputy chief minister said in Delhi Assembly while presenting Budget.
- Rs 3, 914 crore for Housing and Urban Development in 2019-20 for implementation of scheme/projects which is 33.49% higher than the Revised Estimates of Rs 2,932 crore in 2018-19.
- Projects for remodelling of existing hospitals – RTRM Hospital, Acharya Shree Bhikshu Hospital, Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital, Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Hospital, Dr Baba Sahib Ambedkar Hospital and Guru Govind Singh Hospital, and other facilities, at a cost of Rs 963 crore have been sanctioned, Sisodia pointed out.
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