lucknow the spotlight was on farmers youth women rural development and economically vulnerable sections of the society as yogi adityanath government presented its fifth budget probably last before the next state elections on mondaydespite financial constraints due to covidinduced lockdown and the over state revenue falling short of the target this fiscal the government tried to give alliswell message to the people of the state by tabling a paperless budget of rs 55 lakh crore which is rs 38000 crore more than previous years sizeimmediately after the budget the cm tweeted in the middle of a global pandemic this budget inspires hope and gives wings to ups possibilities later addressing a press conference he said it would totally transform the ease of living and ease of doing business he also congratulated finance minister suresh khanna for his allinclusive budgetin his over 100minute speech khanna said that the theme of this years budget was empowerment through selfreliance the four previous budgets of the yogi government were dedicated to industrial development women empowerment farmers and the youthas expected the government has opened its purse string for farmers dedicating a special plan atma nirbhar kirshak smanvit yojana foru doubling their income by 2022 besides rs 600 crore was allocated to a special insurance plan for farmers who meet with an accident khanna announced that those working in the agriculture farms whether farmers cocroppers or farm labourers would be insured under the chief minister insurance scheme the budget also provides rs 700 crore for a free water scheme for farmers and rs 400 crore for crop loans farmers would also get a big chunk from rs 3100 crore earmarked for pension yojanain an outreach to labourers it launched a special scheme of migrants and a new health scheme for unorganised workers besides allocating rs 5500 crore to mnregs which emerged as a saviour for lakhs of migrants who came back to up at the onset of the pandemic besides rs 15000 crore was earmarked for jal jeevan mission ruralin a major push to infrastructure development rs 7689 crore was allocated for the proposed ganga expressway between meerut and prayagraj all other underconstruction expressways too were given decent allocations while the proposed rrts between delhi and meerut got rs 1350 crore proposed airports and jewar got rs 2000 crorewhile there were a slew of announcements for youth including free tablets for eligible students enrolled under abhyudaya scheme the government went all out to impress women with expansion of several existing schemesthe total proposed expenditure on education is rs 92107 crore which is 168 of the total budgetthe government also allocated rs 650 crore to the development of ayodhya other religious places like kashi vrindavan chitrakoot and naimisharanya too were allocated funds for facelift and development with the development of a world class international airport in the name of lord ram in ayodhya i am confident that the footfall in this pious birthplace of lord ram would be more than any other destination in the world