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Uttarakhand: Dhami govt tables Rs 7,844 crore supplementary budget in Bhararisain session

By Prithviraj Singh
Dehradun, Oct 27 (UNI) Pushkar Singh Dhami government today tabled Rs ₹7,844.18 crore supplementary budget to meet its future expenditures in the coming days of the election year, in addition to the main budget of ₹1,11,703.21 crore passed by the Uttarakhand Assembly early in the monsoon session.
This included Revenue budget of ₹3,679.86 crore and ₹4,164.32 crore under capital head, taking total budget size of the state to ₹7,844.18 crore for the current financial year.
Speaking on the supplementary budget tabled by himself, Chief Minister Dhami stated that budget size of the state had been increasing with every passing year. He said major share ₹1,100 crore of this supplementary budget will go to agriculture sector mainly for procurement of paddy and wheat from farmers under Annapurna Yojana. Second major share ₹721 crore under this supplementary budget has been allocated for urban and rural local bodies as the state government has decided to increase taxed revenue share to these municipal and panchayat bodies from current 10.5 per cent to 12.5 per cent.
The supplementary budget incorporates a provision of nearly ₹290 crore for infrastructural development in preparations for the coming "Divya Kumbh Mela" 2027 in Haridwar. A capital outlay of ₹500 crore has been earmarked for infrastructure development under SASCI, ₹300 crore for payment of outstanding dues to contractors under Jal Jeevan Mission, ₹200 crore for digital learning in school and higher education, ₹122 crore for the Gairsain dam project, ₹100 crore for Atal Ayushman Scheme to provide universal cashless medical benefits to the public and ₹125 crore for Golden Card scheme to provide cashless medical facilities to the government employees.
State power sector has been allocated ₹270 crore for transmission and distribution systems while medical education has been given a capital outlay of approximately ₹160 crore is provided for Pithoragarh and Rudrapur Medical Colleges, nursing colleges.
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