Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna presenting interim budget while Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and others looks on during winter session of state assembly, in Lucknow on December 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena

Uttar Pradesh government presents ₹17,865 crore Supplementary Budget for financial year 2024-25

CM Yogi Adityanath also spoke on the second day in the Assembly highlighting the government’s achievement alleging the previous regime pushed the U.P. in a backward direction

by · The Hindu

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday in State Assembly presented the Supplementary Budget of ₹17,865.72 crore for the financial year 2024-25. State Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna while presenting the Budget said that the supplementary demand of grant of ₹17,865 crore is 2.42% of the original Budget of ₹7.36 lakh crore presented in February 2024. The Supplementary Budget is the second such Budget presented after the original Budget. Now, the total Budget size of U.P. is ₹7,66,513.36 crore. 

The Finance Minister said a provision of ₹8,587.27 crore is made for the energy department, ₹2,438.63 crore for the finance department, ₹1,592.28 crore for the family welfare department, and ₹1,001 crore for the Animal Husbandry Department. Additionally, ₹805 crore grant has been allocated for the Public Works Department (PWD), ₹505 crores for the Information Department, ₹515 crore for the Primary Education Department. 

U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath also spoke on the second day in the Assembly highlighting the government’s achievement alleging the previous regime pushed the State in backward direction. “The unemployment rate of the State was more than 19% between the year 2012 and the year 2017, today this rate is at 2.4%. Our government is moving in right direction. We have made more than 1,60,000 recruitments in the education department alone in the State. These are the vacancies that could not be filled due to the bad intentions of the previous government,” Mr. Adityanath said.

Mr. Adityanath targeted Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over carrying a bag written Palestine on it, claiming they are disconnected with national priorities. “While one Congress MP is roaming around with a ‘Palestine’ bag, the Congress leadership remains disconnected from priorities of our nation,” added the U.P. CM.

Published - December 17, 2024 09:42 pm IST