MT News Service
Jammu, March 18:
Hailing the government over meticulously chalking out budget 2021 for the J&K UT, former minister and Incharge BJP HQ J & K Priya Sethi on Thursday called it as the thoughtful remedy to all the problems and issues currently the union territory is confronting with.
While speaking at a function of Kashmiri Pandits at Jagti,Jammu Which was attended by former MLCs Suriender Ambardar,Ajay Bharti along with Distt President BJP Displaced Chand Ji Bhat.
Priya Sethi said that the budget comprises of all the necessary constituents to strengthen the aspiring sectors especially the newly formed DDCs and BDCs which forms the basis of vibrant democracy and are considered as pillars for rural development.
The senior leader of BJP J & K Sethi said that the whooping Rs. 200 crore for just 20 DDCs speaks louder than words about the intent of government for empowering common man.
She congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam for envisaging such a visionary allocation of funds which are surely going to fortify different sectors ensuring socio-economic development and curbing joblessness effectively. She said that zero deficit budget, second in line passed in parliament due to absence of legislature in J&K, is crafted with extreme precision to cut short the journey of J&K towards self-reliance by leaps and bounds.
Priya added that addition of Rs. 7000 crore in comparison to last year’s budget is an indication of central dispensation’s keenness towards developing J&K on modern lines with state of art infrastructure.
She said that considerable enhancement in budget allocation for various departments is the testimony to fact that BJP government holds special affinity towards people of UT.
She also highlighted Rs 846 crore segregated for the Kashmiri Pandits in the budget claiming that this will go a long way in satiating the aspiration of the displaced community which is facing hardships on account of failures of successive governments in J&K and at the centre. “Surely this budget will help in ushering new era of development, public contentment and governance as never before”, she maintained adding that people by now have understood that what BJP government has in offing for them no other party can even think of the same.