The Delhi government has pledged to improve the education model in the national capital and announced that it will provide free laptops to the students.
Addressing a budget session in Delhi assembly chief minister Rekha Gupta said that New ‘CM Shri Schools’ will be opened in the city for which the government has allocated Rs 100 crore.
She further said, “The government will provide free laptops to 1,200 students passing class X for which the government has allocated Rs 750 crore.”
Meanwhile the government has allocated Rs 6,874 crore for the health sector for setting up health and wellness centres.
The government also plans to extend ‘Ayushman Arogya Mandir’.
Gupta said the government had announced that Ayushman Bharat will be implemented in Delhi. Therefore, the central government had announced Rs 5 lakh insurance. “The Delhi will top up by another Rs 5 lakh,” she added.
Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition and former chief minister Atishi criticised the Rekha Gupta government for not presenting the Economic Survey a day before the tabling of its annual budget.
“Delhi’s Budget cannot be formed by making ‘kheer’ but on the figures of the economy,” she said, taking a jibe at the BJP’s “kheer” ceremony that marked the start of the Budget Session.
Gupta on Tuesday presented a Rs 1 lakh crore budget in the Assembly, up by 31.56 per cent from the previous Budget.
The budget has 10 key focus areas including infrastructure, development, water, women security, healthcare and education.
A general discussion on the Budget will be held after its tabling in the Assembly. The members of the Assembly will deliberate and vote on the proposed Budget on March 27.
This is the maiden budget of BJP after coming into power after 27 years, securing 48 seats in the Delhi assembly elections held on Feb 5.
