Baghel Announces Rs 2500 Monthly Allowance To Unemployed Youth In Chhattisgarh budget

Ahead of the assembly polls scheduled for later this year, the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel announced a monthly allowance of Rs 2500 to the unemployed youth. Baghel tabled the annual state budget in the assembly on Monday. 

Presenting the Chhattisgarh budget 2023, chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, who also holds the finance portfolio, announced that the state government will provide Rs 2,500 monthly allowance to unemployed youth in the 18-35 age group whose annual family income is below Rs 2.5 lakh.

It may be recalled that this is the last budget presented by the Baghel government before the state goes on polls later this year. He also announced a hike in the monthly honorarium of Anganwadi workers from Rs 6,500 to Rs 10,000, which is a much awaited announcement.

The budget session of the Chhattisgarh assembly started on 1 March 2023. 

Presenting the budget in the assembly, Baghel said, "A provision of Rs 85 crore has been made for the development of a 700-bed integrated hospital building at Dr BR Ambedkar memorial hospital in Raipur." 

For the establishment of a mobile medical unit in remote areas of the state, a provision of Rs 5 crore was made in the budget, the Chhattisgarh CM added.

“Our state is leading the path of the country. Public perception has changed. 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,” said Baghel in a video statement on Sunday.

Apart from these announcements, a Lite metro project between state capital Raipur and Durg was also proposed.