Dear Aspirants,
Today Chief minister Vasundhara Raje presented Rajasthan Budget 2017-18.
Here are the highlights from her Budget speech.
* Home department to get Rs 5,600 crore which is 11.80% more than the previous year.
* Block headquarters will be connected with fibre, eight lakh people will be given IT training in 2017-18
* Rs. 158.63 crore allocated for art, culture and archaeology department which is 49.42% more than the Revised Estimates of 2016-17.
* Rs 36 crore allocated for basic infra, conservation, beautification and renovation works at various tourist places in state.
* Rs. 2 crore allocated for 25 lac bigger plants, provision of Rs. 3 crore for development of 5 Smriti Van.
* Rs. 10.90 crore to be allocated for conservation of wood fossils, display and development of infra facilities for tourism at Aakal Wood Fossil Park.
* Eco-tourism to be developed at Trevor's Tank at Mount Abu, Rs. 7 crore to be allocated for Project Leopard.
* 190 cities will get WiFi facilities in next financial year.
* Villages with population of more than 5,000 will be developed as smart villages.
* Rs 100 crore allocated to establish district hospital in Dholpur.
* 14 districts in Rajasthan will get new screening facilities for breast cancer, Rs 3.36 crore allotted for this.
* Rs 1,399 crore allotted for higher education in the budget, Karauli and Bharatpur will get new engineering colleges.
* Admission in government schools to be increased by 32%, smart labs will be set up in schools.
* Self defense training will be provided to 3 lakh 60 thousand girls in state schools.
* New sports policy will be released, Bharatpur district to get wrestling academy; Volleyball academy will be established in Jhunjhunu.
* Rs 5986 allocated for social justice department in the budget.
* Economical weaker students from the General Category who get admissions in medical colleges, IITs and NLUs will get Rs 25,000. Those selected for administrative services will get Rs 50,000.
* Rajasthan Budget 2017 makes provision for 1,000 women milk societies in the state.
* One lakh farmers will get soil health cards, announces Vasundhara Raje in her third Rajasthan Budget 2017 speech.
* Rs 88 crore allocated to promote tourism as Rajasthan witnessed 17.31 % increase in the number of tourists in 2016-17. Rs 36 crore to be spent in developing tourists facilities.
* Entrepreneur centers to be set up at Vardhaman University and Jai Narayan Vyas University.
* Vasundhara Raje said 2039 villages will have drinking water facility. Safe drinking water to reach 41,00,000 people. Over 1480 Reverse Osmosis plants will be installed in the villages.
* One lakh new rural electricity connections will be provided to the farmers.
* Budget allocates nearly Rs 16 crore for maintenance of air strips in the state.
