The budget was presented by state finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema, who said education and health were among the government’s focus areas.
The Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab presented its first complete state budget Friday, one which chief minister Bhagwant Mann said would be in the public’s best interest. “Last year, on this day, we got the mandate of the people of Punjab in the election results. Today our government is going to present its first complete budget,” he tweeted, calling it a ‘historic day’ for Punjab.
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The budget was presented by state finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema, who said education and health were among the government’s focus areas. With reference to the former he said 26,797 jobs had been created, so far, by the Mann administration, and more than 10.5 lakh had received medical aid at the AAP’s ‘Aam Aadmi clinics’ set up across the western state.
Here are the top points of the 2023/24 Punjab budget:
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1. Harpal Cheema said education and health sectors are among the priority sectors for the government.
2. On the health sector, the minister said 10.50 lakh people have been treated in ‘Aam Aadmi Clinics’ in the state so far.
3. Cheema said 26,797 jobs have been given so far by the Bhagwant Mann government.
(With agency inputs)
