Haryana govt presents Rs 1.55 lakh crore budget with focus on health, agriculture

Bhartesh Singh Thakur and Geetanjali Gayatri
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 12

The Haryana government on Friday presented a Rs 1.55 lakh crore budget for 2021-22 fiscal, with health, agriculture and infrastructure identified as key priority areas.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who also holds the finance department portfolio, presented his second budget in the State Assembly here.

Presenting the paperless budget, Khattar proposed no fresh tax.

He proposed a budget of Rs 1,55,645 crore for FY 2021-22, an increase of 13 per cent over FY 2020-21 of Rs 1,37,738 crore.

The budget outlay comprises 25 per cent as capital expenditure of Rs 38,718 crore and 75 per cent as revenue expenditure of Rs 1,16,927 crore.

As per 2021-22 Budget Estimates, the revenue deficit is estimated to be at Rs 29,193 crore (about  3.29 per cent of GSDP) as compared to the Rs 20,856 crore revenue deficit in the current fiscal.

The debt liability is likely to go up to Rs 2,29,976 crore as of March 2022 from Rs 1,99,823 crore as of March 2021, constituting 25.92 per cent of the GSDP.

Khattar proposed to raise the Old Age Pension to Rs 2,500 per month from April 1 of this year from the present Rs 2,250.

Presenting budget estimates in the House, Khattar said that the COVID-19 pandemic presented “unprecedented challenges and taught us several lessons”.

“It is important for the budget to prioritise specific sectors that are key to leverage a rebound in the economy, particularly in times of crisis. We have identified health, agriculture and infrastructure as key priority areas that we need to focus recovery and resurgence,” he said.

“While focusing on health is of paramount importance in these times of unprecedented public health crisis, agriculture which forms the foundation of our economy and which is the sheet anchor of our self-reliance is critical,” he said.

Khattar added that the government needs to continue assistance to farmers for paving the way for Haryana’s economic growth.

An outlay of Rs 6,110 crore has been proposed for 2021-22, of which Rs 2,998 crore is earmarked for agriculture and farmers welfare, Rs 489 crore for horticulture, Rs 1,225 crore for animal husbandry and dairying, Rs 125 crore for fisheries and Rs 1,274 crore for cooperation.

The outlay of Rs 6,110 crore for FY 2021-22 indicates an increase of 20.9 per cent against the 2020-21’s Rs 5,052 crore.

He said the government is committed to doubling the farmer’s income.

“We are indebted to our farmers, whose toil and hard work has made Haryana the food bowl of the country. Agriculture is the mainstay of our economy. We are committed to doubling farmer’s income and ensuring his/her wellbeing,” he said.

He said this budget endeavours to reinforce “our interventions and schemes for agriculture on increasing farmer’s income, crop diversification and water conservation”.

The health sector has been allocated Rs 7,731 crore in 2021-22 as against previous fiscal’s Rs 6,433 crore.

As a part of the National Education Policy, the government plans to upgrade classroom infrastructure through blended learning models to improve learning outcomes.

A sum of Rs 700 crore will be allocated to promote technology-based learning in all government schools which will include the provision of digital tablets, digital classrooms etc.

To promote inclusivity, free education will be provided to students in government schools coming from all categories from classes 9th to 12th.                   

A sum of Rs 192 crore will be allocated for ensuring quality education and opportunities to them, as per budget provisions.

Special focus will be given to disadvantaged groups by creating Special Education Zones (SEZs) for targeted groups to improve the enrolment from these groups. A Gender Inclusion Fund (GIF) will be created of Rs 114.52 crore to provide higher financial assistance to girl students in these SEZs, said Khattar.      

Khattar announced the launch of a new scheme – the Mukhyamantri Antyodya Parivar Utthan Abhiyan.

This Abhiyan will draw verified data from the Parivar Pehchan Patra (family ID card) and identify the poorest one lakh families in the state.

A package of measures from education, skill development, wage employment, self-employment and job creation will be adopted and tailored to each family to ensure their economic upliftment to reach a minimum economic threshold of Rs 1.80 lakh per annum, he said.

“Once these one lakh families are successfully uplifted, then the government will identify the next lot of poorest one lakh families and work for their economic upliftment,” he said.

The Mukhyamantri Antyodya Parivar Utthan Abhiyan will be an umbrella mission encompassing all schemes of government to identify the scheme or set of schemes to supplement the upliftment of each identified family.

“Each department of the government will prioritise schemes implemented by them for the upliftment of the identified poorest families. By 2025, if we are together in implementing the Abhiyan, I hope to see no family in the state living below the poverty line,” he said.

In the financial year 2021-22, Khattar proposed a target for the economic upliftment of 2 lakh families under the Mukhyamantri Antyodya Parivar Utthan Abhiyan.

“The government’s strategy is to comprehensively cover these families at the lowest end of the socio-economic ladder, and extend the coverage to the next set of one lakh families, and gradually expand coverage to all the vulnerable sections of the society,” he said. 

—with PTI

Live updates:

Haryana to purchase 800 non-ac buses

• We have initiated the process of purchasing 800 standard non AC buses meeting BSVI emission norms in 2021-22.
• The fleet will be increased to 5000.
• In addition, the 536 buses hired under the kilometre scheme have also started plying: Khattar

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Proposal for performance-indexing of municipalities

The government is considering a proposal to bring a policy for performance-indexing of the municipalities at Municipal Corporation as well as Municipal Council/Committee level so as to create a positive atmosphere of healthy competition among these bodies: Khattar

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Night landing facilities at 4 airports Hisar, Pinjore, Karnal and Narnaul shall be provided

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Forts to be declared protected sites

The Government proposes to declare forts of Loharu, and Tighrana (Harappan Site) in Bhiwani district, Karankot (Bhattu) in Fatehabad district, Rani ki Chhatri at Ballabhgarh in Faridabad district, old Tehsil Building Nuh, Tomb Complex Tauru, and Chuhimal ki Chhatri in Nuh district, Kila Jaffargarh in Jind district, Lal Masjid and Bagha Wali Kothi at Dujana in Jhajjar district, and Kaithal Fort in Kaithal district as protected sites under the Punjab Ancient Historical Monument & Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1964

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The government aims at achieving a minimum of 1 lakh job linkages of the youth of Haryana in the private sector in 2021-22.

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Free education from classes 9th to 12th for all categories in government schools

• Special focus will be given to disadvantaged groups by creating Special Education Zones  (SEZs) for targeted groups to improve enrolment. A Gender Inclusion Fund (GIF) will be created  to provide higher financial assistance to girl students in these SEZs. 
• Rs. 18,410 crores allocated for the education sector which is 17.8 per cent more than the previous year

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Proposal to construct ring roads in Ambala and Bhiwani

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1,000 AYUSH Assistants and 22 AYUSH coaches will be recruited on a contract basis soon in various 'Yogshalas' across the state.

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Govt to consider setting up projects for the revival of Saraswati River

A project for the construction of Adi Badri Dam, Somb Saraswati Barrage and Somb Saraswati Reservoir, with the net live storage capacity of 1680 hectare meters post-monsoon, is under consideration, says Khattar. 

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New hockey, football, basketball and volleyball grounds in Panchkula

They are proposed to be constructed at Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex, Panchkula in view of the coming Khelo India Youth Games-2021.

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Proposal for dam upstream of Hathnikund barrage

Dam on the Yamuna river course from Ponta Sahib to Kalesar to store floodwater

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Process to set up 4 Rehabilitation Centres in Haryana initiated

• The process of establishing four Rehabilitation Centres in Haryana, for scientific training, sports injury treatment and speedy recovery, has been initiated.
• One State level Rehabilitation Centre will be established at Panchkula, while four divisional level centres are proposed at Rohtak, Gurugram, Karnal and Hisar.
• These centres will be equipped with the latest world-class sports-medicine apparatus and will be manned by well-qualified staff, psychologists and physiotherapists.

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Rs 700 cr for tech-based learning in schools

A sum of Rs 700 crore will be allocated to promote technology-based learning in all government schools which will include the provision of digital tablets, digital classrooms etc.

Govt medical colleges to be set up in Jind, Mahendragarh, Faridabad, Kaithal, Sirsa

• University of Health Sciences in Karnal to be named after Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay.
• Khattar says the process is on to establish Dr Mangal Sen Government Medical College in Bhiwani under the centrally sponsored scheme by upgrading the existing District Hospital of Bhiwani. 
• Government Medical Colleges are being set up in the districts of Jind and Mahendragarh.
• Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government Medical College is being established in Faridabad.
• The Government has also proposed to set up Medical Colleges in the districts of Yamunanagar, Kaithal and Sirsa.
• An Oncology Centre will be established in Maharaja Agarsen Medical College, Agroha

• Besides medical colleges, the State Government is setting up a Dental College in the existing Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewati Government Medical College, Nalhar, Nuh

• In addition, six Government Nursing Institutes are being established in districts of Faridabad, Rewari, Kaithal, Kurukshetra and Panchkula.

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Bed capacity of all civil hospitals increased to 200
1,000 Health and Wellness centers will be set up across Haryana

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Pinjore and Gurugram to be developed as film shooting hubs

Panchkula chosen to be developed as solar and green city

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8 more categories included in Ayushman Bharat

These categories are (i) Beneficiaries of Comprehensive Cashless Health Insurance Scheme, (ii) Families registered under Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samridhi Yojana, (iii) Construction Workers registered with the board of the construction workers, (iv) Accredited Media Persons of Haryana, (v) Numberdars, (vi) Chowkidars, (vii) persons belonging to Vimukat Ghumantu Jatis, and (viii) Soldiers who were in Azad Hind Fauz, families associated with Hindi Andolan, families imprisoned during the Second World War and Emergency.

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Govt to construct Mewat feeder canal

To provide drinking water to the Mewat area, the Government has decided to construct a Mewat feeder canal of 100 cusecs.

The pipeline will take off taking from the Gurugram Water Supply Channel near Badli running along KMP Expressway till it reaches the Gurugram Canal.

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Govt committed to constructing SYL canal: Khattar

The State Government is committed to constructing SYL Canal in order to get the State’s share of water of the river Ravi-Beas with sincere and concerted efforts: Khattar

I propose to allocate an outlay of Rs.100.00 crores especially for this purpose in 2021-22 and further assure the House that if there is an additional demand for funds for this purpose, the Government is committed to providing them:

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Govt to expand livestock insurance

• The government will expand the ‘Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Samuhik Pashudhan Beema Yojana’ for the livestock and has decided to go in for livestock insurance.
• The animal owners will have to compulsorily ear tag their animals with unique 12 digits ID to be eligible for benefits under this scheme.

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3 biosafety Level-II laboratories to be set up

• The labs will provide Rapid and RT-PCR diagnostics of Avian Influenza and other poultry diseases
• To be set up in Hisar, Sonepat and Panchkula to provide better diagnostic services in the state

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Develop additional 1,090 hectares saline affected area and 5,000 hectares freshwater area

• Development under ‘Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana Scheme’ (PMMSY) Scheme during 2021-22 to 2024-25.
• Two large fish feed mill plants have been established in Karnal and Charkhi Dadri.
• A Centre of Excellence would be established in 2021-22 at village Garwa in Bhiwani to develop saline affected areas for shrimp culture.
• Under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana Scheme’ (PMMSY), ten small fish feed mill plant units would be established during 2021-22 to 2024-25

Kindergarten to Postgraduate education at Kurukshetra University and MDU, Rohtak

• Need to develop an educational institution with kg to pg facilities: Khattar
• Students enter nursery classes and continue up to post-graduation
• Plan to set up such an arrangement at Kurukshetra University and MDU, Rohtak

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New milk plant in Southern Haryana

• A new milk plant in southern Haryana will be set up, which will cover the NCR region with a packaging capacity of three lakh litre per day extendable to five lakh litre per day.
• A new milk chilling plant is proposed at village Sherla, Tehsil Loharu in Bhiwani. The new plant will process milk to make and market sweet meals under the VITA based brand name.
• The outlay of Rs. 6,110 crore for the agriculture sector in 2021-22 is an increase of 20.9 from the previous year

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Har khet, swasth khet scheme launched to improve soil health

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Khattar has set a target of establishing 100 farmer producer organisation's till the end of next march

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Govt to updrade 1135 Anganwadi centres, set up 500 creches

• 1135 Anganwadi centres running from school premises or departmental buildings will be upgraded into playschools and made operational from March 2021.
• In the second phase, 2865 Anganwadi Centres will be upgraded into playschools in 2021-22.
• 500 crèches will also be made operational in two phases. In the first phase, 182 crèches were sanctioned and 30 crèches have been made operational with modern facilities in 2020-21.
• The remaining crèches will be started in 2021-22 by upgrading existing Anganwadi centres after assessing the footfall of working women in different districts.

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Fiscal deficit within 3 per cent of GSDP: Khattar 

The fiscal deficit is estimated at 2.90 per cent of GSDP for FY 2020-21.

For FY 2021-22, it has been estimated at 3.83 per cent of GSDP, which is well within the prescribed limit of 4.0 per cent by the Fifteenth Finance Commission: Khattar

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Haryana per capita income increased to Rs. 2,47,628 in 2019-20

• The national per capita income at current prices was Rs. 86,647 in 2014-15, which increased to Rs. 1,34,186 in 2019-20.
• For Haryana, it increased from Rs. 1,47,382 in 2014-15 to Rs. 2,47,628 in 2019-20.
• The per capita income at all India level declined to Rs. 1,27,768 and in the case of Haryana to Rs.2,39,535 in the year 2020-21 as per current estimates.

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Old-age pension enhanced to Rs 2,500 per month from Rs 2,250: Khattar

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Legal aid to Scheduled castes has been hiked to Rs 22,000 from Rs 11,000

• This amount is for pursuing cases related to reservation and property

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Khattar presents Rs 1.55 lakh crore budget

• In FY 2020-21, the budget outlay was Rs 1.37 lakh crore
• There is a jump of 13 per cent as compared to the past year
• 25 per cent of the 2021-22 budget will be capital expenditure and 1.16 lakh crore will be revenue expenditure

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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar outside the state Assembly 

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Haryana CM adresses mediapersons ahead of the budget

मुख्यमंत्री श्री @mlkhattar ने आज हरियाणा बजट 2021-22 के दस्तावेज पर हस्ताक्षर कर पत्रकारों से वार्ता की और तत्पश्चात हरियाणा विधानसभा के लिए रवाना हुए।#HaryanaBudget2021 pic.twitter.com/Jq8apeKaL7

— CMO Haryana (@cmohry) March 12, 2021