Here are some key points from Assam Budget 2022

Here are some key points from Assam Budget 2022

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India TodayNE
  • Mar 17, 2022,
  • Updated Mar 17, 2022, 12:21 AM IST

Ajanta Neog, the finance minister of Assam, presented the state budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 to the state legislative assembly on Wednesday. Infrastructure, connectivity, and health are among the many development proposals.

 

The key points of the Assam Budget 2022 are mentioned below:

 

  • 770 crore sanctioned in water transport development system
  • Special bus service to pilgrimage sites
  • Two projects each at the birthplace of Sankar Madhav 
  • Money for repairs at Maniram Dewan's tomb in Sinamore
  • Allocation of money for several Satras
  • Employment of one lakh unemployed
  • 930 appointments made in education department, 1157 posts filled up out of one lakh posts
  • Formation of Commission for Unemployment Establishment
  • 125 crore sanctioned for development of five communities 
  • Tai Ahom Maran mat ka chutiya coach rajvanshi on the list 
  • Provision for re-amendment of Assam Land Policy 2019
  • The survey under Mission Vasundhara will be less completed
  • Grant of Rs. 10000 to PEG student
  • Scooty to all the students who passed with first division in Hs
  • 810 cr. sanctioned and free textbook system for Pragyan Bharati Scheme
  • 10 crore stake for development of agricultural forest 
  • Special package announced for Kaziranga Park
  • Ayurvedic Institute at Palashbari Dudhnai
  • Seven hospitals to be ready by May
  • Guwahati IIT campus super speciality hospital
  • Provision of portal name for pension r for achievement
  • Construction of seven Cancer Hospitals in Phase I
  • Magaria bonus for employees increased to 3 per cent
  • Six new universities to be set up
  • Govt focus on expanding devp of rural areas
  • Three new English colleges at cost of 54 cr each
  • Focus on health infrastructure in Assam

    Capital expenditure increased to rs. 14,360 cr

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