The issues of Uttarakhand have been totally neglected in the Union budget- Dasauni
Wednesday, 02 February 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
Former chief minister and head of the campaign committee of Uttarakhand Congress Harish Rawat has termed the Union budget 2022 presented by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman as disappointing and directionless. Interacting with the media persons Rawat said that the budget is totally concentrated on the elections.
The party’s media in-charge of Garhwal, Garima Mahra Dasauni said that the issues of Uttarakhand have been totally neglected in the union budget. She said that the people reeling under price rise were expecting some relief in the budget but they were in for a big disappointment. She said that the data of the International labour Organisation (ILO) suggest that the unemployment rate in the country was 7.91 per cent in December 2021. Dasauni said that the government’s decision not to increase the budget for MNREGS would break the back of the rural economy. She said that people rendered unemployed during the pandemic are heading towards their villages and for them MNREGS is the only hope. Attacking the government for not giving any relief to the taxpayers Dasauni said that no tax limit was Rs 2 lakh during the term of Manmohan Singh government in the year 2014 and the Modi government made it Rs 2.5 lakh in the year 2015 and after that it has forgotten to increase the limit. She said that while the government failed to provide any succour to the general tax payers it made changes in the corporate tax plan to provide benefit to industrialists friends of the government. Dasauni said that the people of Uttarakhand were hoping for an industrial package for the state and green bonus in lieu of its environment services but they were disappointed.
She added that the tourism sector of the state which is passing through a very bad phase too had laid hopes from the budget but this hope was also shattered by the finance minister. The Congress leader said that apart from being directionless the budget has nothing for the youth, women, employees and traders.
