Finance ministerBuggana Rajendranathon Friday tabled the budget for 2022-23 with an outlay of Rs 2.56 lakh crore and a of Rs 17,036 crore. This was against Rs 2.29 lakh crore budget with just Rs 5,000 crore revenue deficit that he had presented for financial year 2021-22.
Rajendranath said that the government is guiding the people “on the path of development and prosperity” through the four pillars of development policy making, which are the standard models of economic focus. They are human capacity development, Infrastructure provision, livelihoods support and social security, the minister said.
He said that the government’s programmes being implemented through the Navarathnalu are categorised in these four pillars and integrated them with theSustainable Development Goals(SDGs) of theUnited Nations. However, Covid-19 pandemic had hit the state economy, the minister said and added that the government had taken several steps to protect the lives and livelihoods of the people.
He said that the policy-making with the combination of Navaratnalu and the guiding four pillars principle have helped the state to registered an upward Growth to keep peoples’ lives protected and the SDGs are guaranteed.
The allocation for all the social service sectors touched Rs 1,13,340 crore which is nearly 42 per cent of the total budget.
The finance minister granted nearly Rs 30,000 crore for the Education-sector”>Education sector while the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture sector got Rs 13,000 crore.
The Health-sector”>Health sector got Rs 15,384 crore. The finance minister granted Rs 69,306 crore for the economic activities sector. This is nearly 27.5 per cent of the total outlay.
The Irrigation sector got Rs 11,482 crore while the Energy sector got Rs.10,281 crore.
Buggana granted Rs 170 crore for the construction of multi-speciality hospitals in tribal areas.
Rs 250 crore was granted for the upgradation of the district hospitals into medical colleges.
Minister had also granted Rs 320 crore for new medical colleges. He spared Rs 753 crore for the renovation of medical colleges under Nadu-Nedu.
Rs 1,603 crore was granted for Nadu-Nedu in other hospitals across the state.
The core scheme of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government-YSR Arogyasri got Rs 2000 crore allocation.
The brainchild of chief minister YS Jagan, the Amma Vodi scheme will get Rs 6,500 crore.
The finance minister granted Rs.18518 crore for SC Sub-Plan which was increased from Rs 13, 835 crore.
ST sub-plan got Rs 6,145 crore which jumped from Rs 5,318 crore. BC sub-plan grant was increased to Rs 29,143 crore from Rs 28,238 crore.
Minority action was increased to Rs 3,532 crore from Rs 3,306 crore. EBC welfare budget saw a nearly 100 per cent of increase from Rs 3,306 crore to Rs 6,639 crore.
Finance minister Buggana Rajendranth, special SC (finance) SS Rawat, principal secretary Sashibhushan Kumar and secretary KVV Satyanarayana held special prayers in the secretariat before the presentation of the budget to the state cabinet.
Cabinet chaired by chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy stamped its nod to the annual budget little before the minister presented it to the assembly.