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With the Assembly elections successful West Bengal owed aboriginal adjacent year, the TMC authorities successful the authorities is readying to allocate much wealth successful societal information and payment schemes successful this year’s Budget – the past 1 earlier the extremity of the five-year word of the government.
The Budget Session of the Assembly is acceptable to statesman connected Monday with Minister of State for Finance Chandrima Bhattacharya acceptable to array the Budget connected February 12.
Officials told The Indian Express that 2 schemes —Banglar Bari, a lodging scheme; and Lakshmir Bhandar, a fiscal assistance strategy for women — volition beryllium the government’s thrust areas.
“Banglar Bari volition beryllium the 1 of the cardinal thrust areas successful this year’s fund on with different payment schemes similar Lakshmir Bhandar, Kanyasree, Sabuj Sathi, and Rupasree. The gross shortage whitethorn summation successful the budget, but past authorities volition not alteration the allocation successful the societal information schemes,” a elder authoritative successful the authorities Finance Department said.
Last year, the authorities had announced the motorboat of ‘Banglar Bari’ lodging scheme, citing the Centre’s blocking the funds to the authorities nether the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).
Announcing the motorboat of the lodging strategy past December, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee handed implicit the archetypal installment for lodging operation to astir 12 lakh radical belonging to the marginal sections of the society. She besides announced that 16 lakh much beneficiaries volition beryllium fixed lodging funds earlier the 2026 Assembly elections.
Fully funded by the authorities government, the funds are allotted to the beneficiaries of the strategy successful 2 phases.
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In the 2024-25 Budget, the authorities authorities alloted an further Rs 12,000 crore to Lakshmir Bhandar schemeas it doubled the monthly allowance to beneficiaries of the strategy to Rs 1,000 for the wide category, and Rs 1,000 to Rs 1200 for the SCs/ST communities.
TMC leaders said that the hike helped the enactment to triumph implicit women voters successful the past year’s Lok Sabha election. Sources said that with women playing a important relation successful the elections, the Finance Department whitethorn further summation the amount.
Even arsenic West Bengal’s fiscal shortage accrued to Rs 68,250 crore successful the 2024-25 Budget, an summation of astir 37 per cent from 2022-23 erstwhile the fiscal shortage was Rs 49,966 crore, the TMC authorities had announced caller payment schemes and hiked incentives of existing schemes to payment women, younker and antithetic sections of the society.
The authorities authorities had besides announced Samudra Sathi schem to widen fiscal assistance to fishermen and a strategy of one-time assistance of upto Rs 1 lakh for artisans, including accepted crafts and trades.
Atri Mitra is simply a Special Correspondent of The Indian Express with much than 20 years of acquisition successful reporting from West Bengal, Bihar and the North-East. He has been covering medication and governmental quality for much than 10 years and has a keen involvement successful governmental improvement successful West Bengal. Atri holds a Master grade successful Economics from Rabindrabharati University and Bachelor's grade from Calcutta University. He is besides an alumnus of St. Xavier's, Kolkata and Ramakrishna Mission Asrama, Narendrapur. He started his vocation with starring vernacular regular the Anandabazar Patrika, and worked determination for much than 15 years. He worked arsenic Bihar analogous for much than 3 years for Anandabazar Patrika. He covered the 2009 Lok Sabha predetermination and 2010 assembly elections. He besides worked with News18-Bangla and covered the Bihar Lok Sabha predetermination successful 2019. ... Read More
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