Focus On Youth, Infra Push In UP's Last Budget Before 2024
NDTV
The finance minister set an investment target of Rs 10 lakh crore and the creation of 20,000 jobs in the next 5 years
Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna today tabled the "development-oriented" Budget 2023-24 in the state Assembly with a focus on infrastructure.
Targeting youths, the budget made provision of Rs 1,050 crore under the "Chief Minister Kanya Sumangala Yojana", Rs 4,032 crore for destitute widows and Rs 600 crore for the "Samuhik Vivah" scheme for the marriage of girls of all classes.
The finance minister proposed Rs 150 crore for the marriage grant scheme for daughters of poor people belonging to other backward classes.
For providing tablets and smartphones to eligible students under Swami Vivekananda Youth Empowerment Scheme, a provision of Rs 3,600 crore has been made in the budget for the financial year 2023-24.
