(FE)
With the assembly elections Uttar Pradesh a few months away, the BJP government in the state presented a supplementary budget of Rs 7,301.52 crore on Wednesday, focusing on employment generation which will incur an additional expense. The government also announced a hike in the salaries/honorariums of contractual workers like Asha workers, Anganwadi workers, gram chaukidars as well as Shikha mitras, who have been demanding a wage hike for a long time.
Introducing the supplementary budget, state finance minister Suresh Kumar Khanna said the focus is on extremely important issues of public welfare or fulfilling any particular scheme. “There are some new demands in this, especially for creating job opportunities for the youth for which Rs 3,000 crore have been allocated. The other highlights are social security fund for advocates, improvement in the electricity system, construction of Ambedkar Smarak and Saanskritik Kendra, conservation of stray cattle and increasing the basic infrastructure in Ayodhya,” he said.
