UP Budget: Yogi Adityanath government creates history!
It's a historic moment for India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh! The Yogi Adityanath government on Monday presented its first paperless budget in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
Uttar Pradesh "Aatmanirbhar"
The budget for 2021-22 was presented by the state's Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna in the presence of the chief minister. Reading out the budget speech from a laptop, Khanna said the target was to make Uttar Pradesh "Aatmanirbhar" and ensure all round development of the state.
Rs 5,50,270.78 crore budget
With a target of making Uttar Pradesh 'atmanirbhar', the Yogi Adityanath government on Monday presented a Rs 5,50,270.78 crore budget for 2021-22 in the state Assembly.
The budget includes new schemes of Rs 27,598.40 crore.
The budget presented by Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna, in the presence of the chief minister, is over Rs 37,410 crore more than the previous year's budget size, making it the largest fund allocation.
Adityanath government's first paperless budget
This is the Adityanath government's first paperless budget.
It is also the fifth budget of the present government in the state before the next UP Assembly polls.
Union Budget for 2021-22
Earlier, Finance Minister Sitharaman had presented the budget for 2021-22 in Lok Sabha and read out the budget speech in the Lok Sabha from a tablet instead of a conventional paper document as the first paperless budget since independence was presented by the government due to the COVID situation.