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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | UP Budget: Farmers and Marginalised Sections Neglected

UP Budget: Farmers and Marginalised Sections Neglected

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published Published on Mar 10, 2018   modified Modified on Mar 10, 2018
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The Finance Minister of Uttar Pradesh Rajesh Agarwal presented the Budget for financial year 2018-19 on February 16.

The State government allocated Rs. 63,223 crores for overall Education sector which is an increase of 10.90% as compared to 2017-18 in which Rs. 56,993 crores were allocated. Out of this amount, Rs. 50,142 crore will be spent on Primary Education, Rs. 9,387 crore on secondary education and Rs. 2,656 on higher education. But UP's budget allocation for Education is lower than the money allocated by 18 other states for education.

According to an analysis done by the PRS Legislative, a group which monitors and analyses framing of policies and laws, UP allocated 14.5% of its total budget on education in 2018-19. This is lower than average expenditure allocated to education by 18 other states which is 16.1%. The eighteen other States whose budget the PRS Legislative compared to that of UP are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and West Bengal.

Only in the domain of rural development and health UP's allocation is slightly higher than the average of funds allocated by 18 States. While for rural development, UP allocated 5.9% of its total budget, the rest of the 18 states allocated 5.6%.

The edge in allocation for health by UP is only that of 0.7% as compared to other states. While UP spent 5.5% of its total budget for health, rest of the states allocated 4.8% of their total budget.

UP allocated Rs. 32,019 crore for the department of social welfare which is a very minor increase of 2.40% as compared to last year's budget in which Rs. 31,278 crore was allocated for the department by the State.

The Department of Energy's budget allocation by the UP government has gone from Rs. 18,061 crores in the year 2017-18 to Rs. 27,575 crores which is an increase of 52.70%. But the largest chunk of this amount (62%) will go for revenue expenses such as payment of interest and subsidy and 38% of this amount is capital expenses.

While the BJP government set the target of generating 10,700 MW of power using solar energy by 2022 but it allocated only Rs. 25 crore. A solar street light scheme dedicated to the ruling party ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, got Rs. 30 crore.

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Newsclick.in, 9 March, 2018, https://newsclick.in/budget-farmers-and-marginalised-sections-neglected


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