Highlights of Gujarat budget 2009-10
June 30, 2009
Highlights of Gujarat budget 2009-10
By our correspondent
Gandhinagar, DeshGujarat, 30 June, 2009
-Rs 47.76 surplus budget, DTH entertainment tax will bring in more 6 crore Rs. This makes Rs 53.76 crore surplus.
-Entertainment tax of Rs 200 per each Direct to home(DTH) connection per year. This is the only new tax(estimated total Rs 6 crore), announced in today’s budget.
-The annual plan of Gujarat for the year 2009-2010 is Rs.23275 crore which is 11 percent more than last year of Rs.21,000 crore.
-Maximum outlay for social sector. A total of Rs.10150.28 crore has been allotted for it.
-Community training centre in 18 district.
-Two new veterinary colleges.
-Cold storage for milk in internal villages.
-5406 houses for urban poor people.
-Rs 7,000 crore package for urban development under new Swarnim Jayanti Mukhyamantri Shaheri Vikas Yojna.
-Rs 600 crore Swarnim Jayanti Sorath Vikas Yojna to make Junagadh a capital of Gujarat’s tourism sector.
-Rs 400 crore for development works in seven cities.
-4 new courts to dispose off the all cases pending for more than one year before 2011.
-3 bomb disposal squads at a coast of Rs. 96 crore.
-Allocation of budget for the home department has been increased by 69.38 percent this year. Last year it was Rs. 204.65 crore while this year it is Rs. 346.65 cr.
-11 new mahila police stations at the cost of Rs. 96 cr.
-Drilling in 15 wells in Cambay basin for crude.
-250 CNG stations before 2011
-New airports will be developed in Dwarka, Palitana, Ambaji and Morbi.
-Four Industrial and two Investment regions to be developed.
-A book: Museums in Gujarat will be published.
-Gujarat Tourism Company will be set up. Junagadh circuit will be developed.
-New 533 km ‘Kisan Path’ roads for farmers.
-20 new I.T.I will be set up.
-18.500 kg floor will be given on ration card instead of present 16.700 kg.
-Iodin salt will be given to Below poverty line(BPL) ration card holders at a coast of Re.1
-Five power stations(total 800 MW capacity) will be developed.
-1,10,000 new power connections in urban areas.
-Development of 339 religious places will be carried out, phase wise.
-Rs. 2150 crore private investment in port sector.
-1500 new S.T. buses will be put on roads at a coast of Rs 228.50 crore.
-District level 10 bus stations will be upgraded through private partnership.
-Re-survey for modernization of land offices. Form no.6 will be scanned.
-Property card’s latest copies will be given in urban areas.
-Gas stove, cooker will be distributed in 5,000 anganwadi schools through public aid.
-Rs 1.72 crore provision for Kunvarbai nu mameru scheme.
-Rs 10,000 aid to below poverty line family if main person of the family dies.
-Rs 2.64 crore to help beggars for food and cloths.
-Rs 540 crore for Narmada canal oriented water supply scheme.
-New Agro Business policy will be declared.
-CNG transport network to prevent air pollution.
-Work for gas greed’s 22– km pipe line is in progress.
-Underground water recharge movement.
-Gandhinagar will be made solar city.
-Target of 40 percent transportation through BRTS in Ahmedabad, Surat and Rajkot.
-Sakshar Sankalp Project to make 45 lakh people literate in age group of 15 to 35.
-10,600 more seats in degree engineering colleges.
-Rs 100 crore project for modernization of Ahmedabad’s Civil hospital. Total 4820 bed facility will be developed.
-Ahmedabad’s Cancer hospital will have a medical college from year 2010.
-3312 Anganwadi centres and 1126 mini Anganwadi centre will be developed.
-Children Science in December.
-Two new SRP units in Kutch and Jamnagar.
-12 new Police stations.
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