Last Updated: February 01, 2024, 23:40 IST
Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely termed the interim funds disappointing, saying it has ignored points, akin to inflation and unemployment. (Photo: Shutterstock)
The switch to Delhi from the Union residence ministry included Rs 1,168 crore beneath the income head and Rs 0.01 crore beneath the capital head
The Union Territory of Delhi was allotted Rs 1,168 crore within the interim funds for 2024-25 on Thursday, the identical as in 2023-24, with the AAP authorities accusing the BJP-led Centre of meting out “step-motherly” therapy to the nationwide capital.
The switch to Delhi from the Union residence ministry included Rs 1,168 crore beneath the income head and Rs 0.01 crore beneath the capital head.
In the 2022-23 funds, Delhi was allotted Rs 960 crore. The quantity was elevated to Rs 1,168.01 crore in 2023-24 and it stays the identical for 2024-25. There had been no grants in lieu of its share in central taxes and duties for Delhi. It was Rs 325 crore within the 2022-23 funds.
The grants in return of Delhi’s share within the pool of central taxes and duties had been clubbed beneath the “central assistance to Union Territories” within the funds estimates of 2023-24 and have remained so within the interim funds for 2024-25. The allocation beneath central help to Delhi within the 2024-25 funds estimates was Rs 951 crore just like the earlier funds for 2023-24. It is offered for financing the schemes of the Delhi authorities.
Delhi’s Finance Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Atishi alleged that the funds has as soon as once more proved that the BJP is main a authorities of hole guarantees. She additionally stated “step-motherly” therapy has been meted out to the nationwide capital. “If Delhi were to get its rightful share of the central taxes, which Delhiites pay in the form of income tax, then the city should have received Rs 15,000 crore from the Centre. But only Rs 1,000 crore have been allocated. Like every time, we have been given step-motherly treatment. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has not been given a single penny,” she informed PTI-Video.
“The government has provided a central assistance of Rs 15,000 crore to Rs 16,000 crore to urban local bodies but no allocation has been made for the MCD. They do not have money for the Delhi government or the MCD,” Atishi stated. On Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement that the Centre has determined to boost the goal for creating “Lakhpati Didis” from two crore to 3 crore, the AAP chief stated at a time when “women are worried about atta, dal and buying LPG cylinders, this is a huge joke that they will be made lakhpatis”.
“Where are the jobs and business opportunities for women?” she requested. The “Lakhpati Didi” scheme is aimed toward coaching girls in self-assist teams (SHGs) in order that they’ll earn a sustainable revenue of a minimum of Rs 1 lakh each year.
Slamming the Centre, Atishi stated, “I want to ask the Centre and the BJP to stop jumlebazi (gimmickry). The entire country has seen how, in the last 10 years, you have done nothing to curb price rise, unemployment and bring about economic growth.” “This budget has once again proved that the (Narendra) Modi government is actually a jumlewali government (a government of hollow promises). There is no relief in the price of LPG cylinders and income tax slabs. There is nothing for job creation. There is no relief from the GST on food items like atta and pulses,” she added. The AAP chief welcomed the hike within the defence funds to Rs 6.21 lakh crore for 2024-25 from final yr’s Rs 5.94 lakh crore.
She stated the armed forces ought to get the most effective of amenities however careworn that the allotted funds ought to attain them. “We have seen how a jawan raised questions over the quality of food served to them. The food quality did not improve but the jawan lost his job. We hope that the bravehearts who guard our borders get those funds in reality,” she added.
In the interim funds for Delhi, an quantity of Rs 2 crore was additionally allotted as enhanced compensation to the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The allocation in the direction of the Union Territory Disaster Response Fund is Rs 15 crore and a further central help of Rs 200 crore for externally-aided tasks (the Chandrawal water therapy plant) can also be there just like the earlier yr’s funds.
“They talk about Viksit Bharat but they have not increased the allocation for health and education. Education and healthcare as a share of the total budget is merely 2.51 per cent and 1.98 per cent respectively. It has been four years since the NEP (National Education Policy) was announced with the ambitious target of ensuring that 6 per cent of the GDP was allocated to education, but little progress so far,” Atishi stated. Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely termed the interim funds “disappointing”, saying it has ignored points, akin to inflation and unemployment.
“It was disappointing that the budget before the Lok Sabha election has neglected employment generation, small and medium industrialists and traders, factory owners, women, youngsters, labourers and farmers. They do not figure in the government’s scheme of things,” he stated. Lovely claimed that the finance ministry has introduced much less allocations for training, agriculture, well being and public welfare.
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