Yogi2.0

Suresh Khanna on Wednesday tabled the state’s annual budget for the financial year 2023-24 and the second budget for ‘Yogi 2.0’. Khanna announced that a 16.8% growth in state GDP has been registered while the employment rate is down to 4.2%. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath presided over a meeting of the state cabinet to give a nod to the budget.The annual Budget of approximately 7lakhs crore mainly focuses on the infrastructure, development, welfare schemes and empowerment of youths and women in the state, as expected.Also read: Delhi: Man kills girlfriend, stores body in RefrigeratorOn May 26 last year, the state government had presented an annual budget of ₹6.15 lakh crore. A supplementary budget of ₹33,769.55 crore was presented on December 5, 2022, taking the total size of the UP budget in 2022-2023 to ₹6.50 lakh crore. An increase of about 10% in the outlay may take the annual budget for 2023-2024 to nearly ₹7 lakh crore.The following are the key points: Studen