UP Budget 2023 focuses on job creation, education, infra development of schools

NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh finance minister Suresh Kumar Khanna today tabled the Budget 2023-24 in the state legislative assembly. The UP Budget 2023 largely focussed on education, jobs and development of infrastructure for schools among others.

The "development-oriented" Budget 2023-24 has allocated Rs 1,000 crores for the development of infrastructure facilities in primary and upper primary schools and to develop them as smart schools under Operation Kayakalp, the finance minister said.

Provision of Rs 510 crores in the budget has been allocated to implement Pradhan Mantri School for Rising India (PM Shri) in the state.

Moreover, for providing tablets and smartphones to eligible students under Swami Vivekananda Youth Empowerment Scheme, a provision of Rs 3,600 crore has been made in the budget for the financial year 2023-24.

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The finance minister has set an investment target of Rs 10 lakh crore and the creation of 20 thousand jobs in the next 5 years under the new Uttar Pradesh Tourism Policy 2022.

The finance minister earlier told reporters that it would be the biggest budget in the history of Uttar Pradesh. Last year, the state government presented an annual budget of Rs 6.15 lakh crore for 2022-23. A supplementary budget for Rs 33,769.55 crore was presented in December 2022, taking the total size of the budget to about Rs 6.50 lakh crore.

(With inputs from PTI)