Jharkhand assembly approves Rs 7,040 crore budget for health dept

TheJharkhandassembly approved the annual demand of grants worth Rs 7,040.90 crore for the department of Health, medical Education and family welfare department during the ongoing budget session. The budget proposal was approved by a voice vote without the opposition members.

The assembly secretariat has sent four reminders to the department but the question remains unanswered,” he said, underlining that for raising the question, the health minister lodged an FIR against him with the Doranda Police station.

While replying to the debate, health minister Banna Gupta accused Rai of unlawfully acquiring his department’s documents and challenged him to prove his complicity in taking the meant for incentives to Covid warriors. The heated arguments were somehow managed by speaker Rabindra Nath Mahto and the demand for grants was declared approved through a voice vote.