Delhi Budget: Kailash Gahlot
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Finance Minister Kailash Gehlot presented Delhi’s budget of Rs 78,800 crore in the assembly on Wednesday. The budget focuses on the development of Delhi and provision for measures to keep the capital clean, eliminate mountains of garbage, build flyover-hospitals, bring new e-buses as well as provide employment to the youth. Has been done By setting a target of getting 25 per cent of energy requirements from renewable energy sources and improving sewage treatment system, the government has indicated to take further steps keeping in mind the environmental situation.
However, by reducing the budget on health, the government has given the opposition an opportunity to criticize. BJP has said that Arvind Kejriwal started his politics by showing golden dreams, but not a single one of it has been fulfilled so far. He does not have much hope from this budget either.
Till now Manish Sisodia used to present the budget of the Delhi government. He has presented the budget of Delhi eight times. Kailash Gehlot, who was made finance minister after his arrest on February 26, presented the ninth budget of the Aam Aadmi Party government. In this, he has tried to maintain that direction, which has been the mainstay of Arvind Kejriwal’s politics. In this budget too, it has been talked about improving the education system of Delhi.
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Manish Sisodia may not have technically presented this budget, but he had almost completed the process of making the budget before his arrest. Perhaps this is the reason why his direction has been upheld in this budget of the Delhi government as well. The government has declared education and health as its first priority. The government has also promised to build nine new hospitals.
The way the government has set a target of getting 25 per cent of Delhi’s total energy requirements from the green energy sector, it can be said to be in line with the future challenges of the world and the promises made by India at COP 26, which will gradually A target has been set to gradually move towards renewable energy sources. Bringing new e-buses will also help in making Delhi clean and reduce pollution.
Will Kejriwal be able to set standards?
Garbage mountains have become the identity of Delhi. This is the cause of big problem all over the world. But countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Norway have shown that this huge problem can be tackled using technology if the will is right. If the Kejriwal government succeeds in doing this, it can become increasingly popular in the country with the help of its model, but failure in this task will open the door for new criticisms.
BJP told white elephant
BJP leader Vijender Gupta, who was expelled from the House for a year for creating a deadlock in the Assembly, has said that the Delhi government’s budget is like a white elephant, which is shown off a lot and costs a lot to maintain it. Yes, but it is of no use. He said that the Delhi government has proved by corruption in every department that the meaning of budget for it is completely different from other people.
Vijender Gupta said that only figures have been juggled in the budget. The Arvind Kejriwal government should tell what has happened to the promises it had made in its first budget itself to arrange water in Delhi, clean the Yamuna and open 500 new schools in Delhi. He said that the same Delhi government did not give money to the corporations just a few days ago, now it has talked about ending the mountains of garbage by giving money to the corporations.
He said that if the Delhi government had cleaned the Yamuna during its more than eight years in office, its claim of eradicating the mountain of garbage could have been trusted, but it did not happen. He said that the condition of new promises will be similar.