Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami held a press conference regarding the budget. During this, while giving detailed information about the budget 2023, said that this budget is a budget to strengthen the foundation of India. Said that the people of Uttarakhand will get benefits from this budget. Every section has been taken care of in this budget.
CM Dhami termed the Union Budget 2023 presented in the Parliament as Amrit Kaal in true sense. He said that the interests of every section including youth, middle class, farmers, women have been taken care of in the budget. The budget is dedicated to inclusive growth, preference for the underprivileged, infrastructure and investment, capacity expansion, green growth, youth power, and the financial sector and spells out the vision of Amritkal. Said that he has full faith that the state of Uttarakhand and the people of the state will be benefited from the budget.
CM Pushkar Singh Dhami congratulated Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the budget. He said that India is the fastest growing economy in the world under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi. He termed the decision of supply of free food grains to all priority families in the budget for the next one year as highly commendable. Said that by extending the 50-year interest-free loan to the states in the budget for one more year, infrastructure development works will be expanded.
Assistance to one crore farmers for natural farming in the next three years
CM Dhami said that creating an agricultural fund to encourage agri-startups to young entrepreneurs, providing assistance to one crore farmers for natural farming, animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries and increasing the agricultural loan target to 20 lakh crore in the next three years. By doing this, the farmers, horticulturists, animal herders and fishermen of Uttarakhand will also get benefited.
The importance of tourism for the economy of Uttarakhand is immense. Definitely, the initiative being taken for the development of the tourism sector in the budget will prove to be very helpful. Focus will be on the development of border villages through Vibrant Village. This will also benefit the border villages of the state. He said that with the launch of PM PVTG Vikas Mission to improve the socio-economic condition of tribal groups, tourism will be promoted on a mission mode with the active participation of states, government and public partnerships. Regional air connectivity will improve. Overall this is the budget of youth, women, farmers, poor, middle class.
Middle class, senior citizens and women will get benefit
The CM said that a new tax slab has been brought in the budget. This will give a lot of relief to the middle class and job profession. The scope of income tax exemption has been increased. The limit of Senior Citizen Account Scheme will now be increased from 4.5 lakh to 9 lakh. New savings scheme for women has been announced.
