In her 138-minute speech, CM Rekha Gupta, who also holds the finance portfolio, said the budget was a 'historic' one, marking the end of corruption & inefficiency in Delhi's governance.
This Budget Session is significant, as it follows the recent 2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly election, which saw the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) return to power after 27 years.
Before presentation of the Budget, the chief minister is set to visit the Hanuman Temple in Connaught Place after which she will head towards Delhi Secretariat for a Cabinet meeting.
Before the Budget was presented in Assembly, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said the work started by jailed ex-minister Manish Sisodia would be carried out with double speed.
Delhi govt's Budget for 2023-24, scheduled for Tuesday, has been put on hold with Kejriwal dispensation and Centre trading charges over allocations under various heads.
Allocation of Rs 800 cr for job generation in Delhi follows the success of party's employment plank in Punjab, which helped it realise that unemployment is a common worry across India.
Terming the 8th consecutive budget of the Aam Aadmi Party govt a "Rozgar Budget", Sisodia said the per capita income of Delhi is 2.7 per cent higher than the national average.
Sometimes the machine just gives up, unable to keep pace with the will of the military mind of the air warrior. That’s what happened in Palam 1989 and Dubai 2025.
Speaking at 2nd Investor Connect, CM Vishnu Deo Sai says 'we have been able to attract a lot of investors.' The focus of the event was the steel sector.
In largest overhaul of military command in 5 decades, Field Marshal Asim Munir set to assume post of Chief of Defence Forces tomorrow, as Army claims primacy in Pakistan armed forces.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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