Bihar Budget 2022: Deputy CM Tarkishore Prasad Announces 2.3 Lakh Crore Budget — Know Key Allocations

Bihar Budget 2022 focuses on Health, education, industry, agriculture, and rural-urban infrastructure.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with Deputy Chief Minister Tarkishore Prasad (File Photo/Getty Images)

New Delhi: The Bihar government on Monday presented its 2.3 lakh crore Budget for the 2022-23 fiscal in the state assembly.

Deputy Chief Minister Tarkishore Prasad, who holds the finance portfolio, made his second Budget speech in the house today.

A budget of 2,37,691 crores was presented in the Bihar assembly on Monday, the budget size for the state increased in this financial year.

Presenting the Budget in the Assembly, Tarkishore Prasad said that the GDP growth rate in the state is estimated to be 9.8 percent.

He mentioned that the Budget focuses on Health, education, industry, agriculture, and rural-urban infrastructure. According to the Deputy Chief Minister, an amount of 800 crores has been invested in the state so far. 

Following are the key announcements in Bihar Budget 2022:

• A provision of over Rs 29,000 crores has been made in the Budget on basic facilities including roads, health, and education in rural areas.
  
  
• 1,23,757 lakh have been allocated for the welfare works related to women and children. 
  
  
• Under Budget 2022-23, Rs 16,134 crore has been allocated in Bihar for health. 7,712.30 crore allocated for agriculture, Rs 1,64,374 for industry.
  
  
• The Chief Minister's Self-Help Allowance Scheme has been allocated Rs 200 crore, a provision of Rs 225 crore has been made for the 'Kushal Yuva Program'.
  
  
• Rs 847 crore has been allocated for the 'Swacch Gaaon, Samriddh Gaaon' scheme. Under this. Solar street lights will be installed in all villages.
  
  
• Rs 700 crore will be spent on the Bihar Student Credit Card Scheme.
  
  
• Under the 'Swacch Sheher, Vikasit Sheher' scheme, old age homes will be set up in all the districts. Housing will be provided to the homeless by building multi-storey houses.

Opposition Uproar In Budget Session

Last week, the Budget session of the Bihar assembly began on a stormy note with many opposition members staging protests. The Opposition continued the uproar ahead of today's Budget announcement, demanding the resignation of BJP MLA Hari Bhushan Thakur Bachaul.

As soon as the House assembled at 11 AM, several members of the opposition parties, mainly the RJD, trooped into the well demanding suspension of BJP MLA Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul.

After repeated pleadings by Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, the opposition MLAs went back to their seats and began apprising the Chair of the issues they were concerned about.

The leaders were agitating against a provocative statement about minorities by the BJP MLA who represents the Bisfi assembly segment.

He had said that Muslims “had been given a separate country at the time of Partition” and those who have chosen to stay back should be “stripped of voting rights and made to live as second class citizens”, as reported by news agency PTI.

As per PTI, the Opposition leaders are also condemning the alleged lynching of a JD(U) leader by cow vigilantes.

On Friday, Congress MLAs Shakeel Ahmed Khan and Rajesh Ram boycotted Governor Phagu Chauhan’s customary address to the joint session as a token of protest against the “communal vitiation as evident from the two instances”.

(With Agency Inputs)