Delhi Budget Session To Begin On March 17, Kailash Gahlot To Present Budget

The Budget session of the Delhi Assembly will convene on March 17. The Budget will be presented by AAP Minister Kailash Gahlot in the Assembly.

File Photo of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Source : PTI

New Delhi: The Budget session of the Delhi Assembly will convene on March 17. The Budget of the Delhi government will be presented by AAP Minister Kailash Gahlot in the Assembly, as reported by the news agency ANI. This is for the first time since 2015 that former Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia, who was arrested in a corruption case pertaining to the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped liquor policy for 2021-22, will not be presenting the Budget.

The Budget session of the Delhi Assembly will convene on March 17. Minister Kailash Gahlot will present the budget of the Delhi government in the Assembly.

— ANI (@ANI) March 5, 2023

Last month, prior to his arrest, Manish Sisodia held a stakeholder meeting with the representatives of various market associations. The main aim of the meeting was to include the suggestions of the stakeholders in the budget-making process so that it can be shaped as per their requirements.

In the meeting, representatives of market associations demanded special packages from the government for their markets and sectors in the budget. Parkings, pink toilets, and cleanliness of markets and roads were the main demands of traders. Representatives of more than 15 market associations related to textile, paper, automobile, furniture, timber, food grains, medicines, bakery, dry fruits and other sectors participated in the meeting.

Delhi Minister Kailash Gehlot on Thursday took over the charge of his newly allocated departments and directed the senior offcials "to expedite the pending works," according to an official statement.

Gahlot was recently allocated the Finance, Planning, Public Works(PWD), Power, Home, Urban Development, Irrigation and Flood Control, and Water departments in addition to the responsibility of all other departments not specifically allocated to any minister. This was his first meeting with the officers after taking charge of the newly allocated departments.