Delhi govt. budget prioritises water, housing and welfare sectors
The Hindu
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Delhi’s budget for 2022-23 fiscal saw slight variations in funds allocation in core sectors, including education, health, transport and housing and urban development in addition to social security and welfare.
Underlining its priorities for the current fiscal, the proportion of the budget to improve water supply and sanitation services in the Capital more than doubled, while it went up by almost a fourth for rural development and agriculture. The housing and urban development sector received an additional allocation of almost 7%.
Out of the total amount allocated towards schemes and programmes for these core sectors, which registered an increase of over 15% going from ₹37,800 crore in 2021-22 fiscal to ₹43,600 crore, the amount allocated for schemes related to the education sector slightly reduced to ₹7,310 crore from ₹7,379 crore in 2021-22.
Similarly, allocation for the transport sector registered a dip from ₹8,862 crore to ₹8,817 crore. For the health sector, allocation went up from ₹5,192 crore to ₹5,567 crore; for social security and welfare from ₹4,439 crore last fiscal to ₹4,924 crore; and for Housing and Urban Development, from ₹3,218 crore to ₹3,434 crore.
A boarding school for the homeless and a School Science Museum were among the prominent initiatives in the education sector. Also, upgrading 15 existing hospitals and the creation of four more, underlined efforts in the health sector.
For Housing and Urban Development, the provision of sewer lines in unauthorised colonies was among the significant objectives while continuing financial assistance to over 8.5 lakh citizens were the highlight of the government’s allocation for the social security and welfare sector.
Allocation for water supply and sanitation shot up to ₹6,710 crore from ₹3,274 crore last fiscal – a substantial increase of over 104% – and almost 22% for rural development and agriculture from ₹950 crore to ₹1,156 crore.
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