Here are the main decisions taken by the AAP government...
<p>Today is the day when AAP Government finally presented budget for the year in front of Assembly after facing a tussle between Central government and AAP’s government. Finally, it was yesterday when the Union Home ministry accepted the budget after objecting certain things in various heads.The Union Home ministry accepted the budget after Arvind Kejriwal wrote to PM Narendra Modi requesting him to not stall the budget. While writing the letter to him he wrote, “his is the first in the last 75 years that a state’s budget has been stalled. Why are you upset with Delhiites? Please don’t stall Delhi’s budget. With folded hands, Delhiites are requesting you to pass their budget.” Also read: Rajasthan: Sate’s govt. employees can now get promoted amid 3rd child… Know govt’s decisionAnd when the home ministry accepted the budget after some of the rectifications, Delhi’s New Finance Minister Kailash Gehlot presented the budget worth Rs 78,800-crore for the financial year 2023-24. While ann</p>
02:34 PM Mar 22, 2023 IST
Today is the day when AAP Government finally presented budget for the year in front of Assembly after facing a tussle between Central government and AAP’s government. Finally, it was yesterday when the Union Home ministry accepted the budget after objecting certain things in various heads.
The Union Home ministry accepted the budget after Arvind Kejriwal wrote to PM Narendra Modi requesting him to not stall the budget. While writing the letter to him he wrote, “his is the first in the last 75 years that a state’s budget has been stalled. Why are you upset with Delhiites? Please don’t stall Delhi’s budget. With folded hands, Delhiites are requesting you to pass their budget.”
And when the home ministry accepted the budget after some of the rectifications, Delhi’s New Finance Minister Kailash Gehlot presented the budget worth Rs 78,800-crore for the financial year 2023-24. While announcing the budget he said that this year’s budget is totally dedicated to clean, beautiful and modern Delhi.
Following are the key points discussed while announcing the budget:
1. 26 flyovers, bridges and underpasses to be constructed this year.
2. Upgradation to be done of 1,400-km PWD road network.
3. 1,900 zero-emission electric buses to be inducted by end of 2023, which would result in reduction of Co2 emissions by 1.07 lakh tones
4. 1,400 new modern bus shelters to be built soon.
5. AAP government to connect all colonies to sewer network and increase the capacities of sewage treatment plants to clean Yamuna and make Delhi cleaner and more beautiful.
6. Every possible help will be given to MCD to remove 3 mountains of garbage in Delhi in two years. Okhla landfill to be removed by December 2023, Bhalswa by March 2024, Ghazipur by December 2024. MCD to get Rs 850 cr for flattening landfills.
7. This year Local bodies will be given financial assistance of around Rs 8,241 crore in financial year 2023-24.
8. Delhi govt to construct 3 unique double-decker flyovers in collaboration with DMRC.
9. Electrification of 57 existing bus depots, construction of 9 new bus depots, 3 ISBTs, 2 multi-level bus depots in Delhi.
10. 6-point action plan soon t be implemented in order to clean Yamuna.
11. Mohalla Bus scheme for the last mile connectivity.
12. 100 e-buses to be launched in 2023-24 and 2,180 in the next 2 years.
13. Delhi will treat 890 million gallons of sewage a day by March 2024.
14. 350 Delhi govt schools to get 20 computers each and all teachers, principals, vice-principals to get tablets.
15. Delhi govt this year plans to open 100 Mahila Mohalla Clinics(Women clinics) in 2023-24.
16. 9 new hospitals to be built out of which 4 to be operational this year. Hospital bed count to increase from 14,000 to 30,000.
17. Water availability in Delhi to be increased from 995 million gallons a day to 1,240 MGD by March 2025.
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