Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia presented a budget of Rs 75,800 crore for the financial year 2022-23 in the Assembly on Saturday. The minister also said that the budget aims to help Delhi’s economic recovery post COVID-19. “Delhi’s economy is slowly recovering from the impact of COVID-19. The budget allocation for 2022-23 is Rs 75,800 crore. This is the eighth consecutive budget of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government.
Sisodia said the 2022-23 budget is a “employment budget”. He also said that Delhi’s per capita income is 2.7 percent higher than the national average. “The proposed budget estimate for the year 2022-23 is Rs 75,800 crore, 9.86 crore. The budget estimate for the year 2021-22 is over Rs 69,000 crore and 13.13 per cent higher than the revised estimate.
Here are the top announcements made by Manish Sisodia while presenting the Delhi Budget 2022-23:
In my eighth budget in this House, I am presenting an agenda to create new jobs for the people of Delhi and promote economic recovery from the damages caused by COVID-19, GST and Demonetisation in recent years. The schemes and proposals introduced in this budget will not only provide new entrepreneurship opportunities to the youth of Delhi, but will also benefit the already established enterprises and businesses. Sisodia said, I want to present in this House the “Employment Budget” for the coming financial year.
Through the employment budget, we aim to restart and strengthen the engine of economic growth. But Mr Speaker, before presenting this employment budget proposal and plans for 20 lakh new jobs before the House.
Delhi’s economy is slowly emerging from challenges amid five waves of COVID-19 and this is likely to increase Delhi’s GSDP to Rs 9,23,967 crore from Rs 7,85,342 crore in 2020-21 at current market prices. In 2021-22. an increase of 17.65 percent. I would also like to clarify that the real growth rate of Delhi’s GSDP in the year 2021-22 is likely to be 10.23 percent. Whereas at the national level, this growth rate is estimated to be 8.9 percent.
Delhi’s per capita income is likely to increase to Rs 4,01,982 at current prices in the financial year 2021-22. In the year 2020-21, it was Rs 3,44,136. This shows a growth of 16.81 per cent in Delhi’s per capita income in 2021-22.
Under the leadership of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, we are aiming to increase the percentage of working population of Delhi to 45 per cent from the current 33 per cent in the next five years. Our government has selected the following sectors as a priority to create new jobs – retail, food and beverage, logistics and supply chain, travel and tourism, entertainment, construction, real estate and green energy.
We are planning to redevelop and transform these iconic markets of Delhi into attractive tourist destinations. For this we propose Rs 100 crore in the budget. In the next five years, at least 1.5 lakh new jobs will be created from just five markets. Every year the ‘Delhi Shopping Festival’ will be organized to invite the people of the country and the world to shop in Delhi and experience it as a festival.
The Delhi government has launched an ambitious plan to revive over 600 lakes and water bodies of Delhi with an estimated outlay of Rs 750 crore, to make Delhi’s water bodies free from encroachment, which has been neglected for decades and They have been converted into dumpyards.
All economists agree that as long as women are out of the workforce, India’s dream of becoming a developed country will remain a dream. Keeping this in mind, emphasis has been laid on creating more employment opportunities for women in this year’s budget. 25,000 new jobs will be created for women under the ‘Smart Urban Farming’ initiative.
I propose a budgetary provision of Rs 9,769 crore for the health sector for the financial year 2022-23. Remodeling of 15 existing hospitals has started. Proposals are being prepared for four new hospitals. I propose Rs 1900 crore for construction of new hospitals and reconstruction of existing government hospitals.
QR code based e-health card will be made available to all citizens under Hospital Information Management System and Health Card. This will help in identifying patients and getting basic information about their disease through geo-tagging.
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