Chhattisgarh Budget 2023: Bhupesh Baghel to present last Budget ahead of Assembly election

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, who also holds the finance portfolio, will present the budget for the financial year 2023-23 today in the Assembly. It would be the last Budget of the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government before the state goes to polls at the end of 2023.

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The Budget session of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly began on Wednesday, March 1, with Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan's address.

“The budget that I am going to present on Monday will give the dreams of our state a new reality which will talk not in the sky but on the ground,” Baghel said on Sunday.

He said that Chhattisgarh's unemployment rate is low and that the state has broken the record in paddy procurement. The government schemes have reached the people. He added that the state's health-education model is being replicated by other governments.

The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said it would corner the government on several issues including the deteriorating law and order situation.

Senior BJP MLA Dharamlal Kaushik said his party was fully ready to corner the government on issues like the deteriorating law and order situation, rising incidents of rape and flourishing trade in contraband materials. Rise in the incidents of human-elephant conflict and broken poll promises of the Congress will also be raised in the House, he added.

Budget The session will have 14 sittings and conclude on March 24. As many as 1,590 questions have been received from the legislators including 812 starred questions and 768 un-starred questions.

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