West Bengal minister of state for finance (independent charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya is all set to table the state budget for the financial year 2023-24 in the assembly on February 15.
Commenting on some of the projects that the Mamata Banerjee government wishes to implement, such as the Tajpur Port, Mr Adhikari said that these are mere illusions because Tajpur Port is not possible since that requires a huge amount of land. “Does the state government have the guts to buy land for the project? These are just to fool the people. This is an anti-people budget.”
Miss Banerjee said total budgetary allocation has been raised by 3.8 times, state development allocation by 6.7 times, capital outlay by 15 times, social sector allocation by 10.7 times and all departmental allocations have been increased substantially namely agriculture and allied services by 11 times, higher education 25 times, agriculture department 33.2 times, health and family welfare 19.3, women and child development and social welfare 17.5 times and others.
