Deputy CM Manish Sisodia presents the outcome budget report at the Dlehi Legislative Assembly, on Friday. (Twitter Screenshot/@manishsisidia)Delhi Budget 2022 Live Updates: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Manish Sisodia Friday presented the Outcome Budget for the year 2021-22 in the Legislative Assembly. The Delhi government is the first to introduce the Outcome Budget in which it announces details of various projects and schemes, Sisodia said.
According to him, the report aims to make their government “more accountable”.
In other news, A preliminary inspection report submitted by a team from IIT-Delhi to the committee probing the collapse of a portion of a tower at Chintels Paradiso society in Gurgaon’s Sector 109 last month has found that the steel reinforcements in debris and collapsed portion were corroded, and there were rust marks on pieces of concrete.
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While presenting Delhi outcome budget 2021-2022, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said the government will conduct surveys of all Mohalla clinics every three months to ensure quality. Currently, there are 520 functional clinics in the national capital, Sisodia said.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Manish Sisodia presented the status report of the Outcome Budget for the year 2021-22 in the Legislative Assembly on Friday.
Sisodia said they were the first to introduce the Outcome Budget wherein they put out details of the status of various projects undertaken by the government.
"It is a General Knowledge question, 'Which is the government that promises and also delivers them?' Except for some MLAs, everyone knows the answer to this question," he told the House, in an apparent reference to the Opposition members.
While presenting the status report, he said the city government constructed 13,181 classrooms in its schools while the number of students enrolled in government schools rose from 15 lakh to 18 lakh.
"Nearly 80,000 applications for 4,800 seats were received for the 31 schools of excellence. The Deshbhakti curriculum has been implemented in all government schools and will be implemented in private schools from the next year," said Sisodia, who is also Delhi's Education Minister. ---PTI
In order to beautify parks and gardens, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has decided to collect all the dry leaves that have fallen on the sides of roads and in parks, and convert it into ‘green organic manure’ under its green initiative, said Vice Chairman Satish Upadhayay.
According to Upadhyay, the NDMC at present produces about 1.5 tonne manure through dry waste collected from the big parks like Lodhi Garden, Nehru Park, Sanjay Jheel and others. This manure is produced at compost pits created inside the parks. Read more
Days after the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) objected to the “gender discriminatory salutations” in the proforma asked to be filled up to update the telephone directory, the administration distributed the same in a revised format.
On March 20, the JNUTA wrote to the Deputy Registrar (Administration) expressing its “dismay” at a communication from him asking for information for the directory. Read more
There should have been a broader consultative process with school education stakeholders before notifying the Common Universities Entrance Test (CUET), an association of private schools in Delhi has stated in a letter to the Minister of Education (MoE).
The National Progressive Schools Conference—a body of leading private schools—has written to the MoE to request that at least 50 per cent weightage be given to Board examination performances in central university admissions along with the CUET. Read more
Delhi is likely to see clear skies and a maximum temperature of 35 degrees Celsius on Friday.
The maximum temperature recorded on Thursday was 35.5 degrees Celsius, five degrees above the normal. The normal maximum temperature, which is calculated as a long period average, for March 25 and 26 is 30.8 degrees Celsius, and the normal minimum temperature is 17.1 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature recorded early on Friday was 19.6 degrees Celsius. Read more
A businessman from Jammu & Kashmir was allegedly denied accommodation at an OYO hotel in Jahangirpuri, with the staff citing “police orders”. Police have registered a case against the hotel for denying the man accommodation and blaming them for it. The alleged incident took place Wednesday at Hotel Pleasant Inn, which the businessman, Faisal, had booked online. Read more
THE Delhi Police has lodged an FIR against three relatives of BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri for allegedly trying to extort Rs 1 crore from a businessman, in Southeast Delhi’s Pul Prahladpur. The complainant has also claimed in the FIR that he called the MP requesting him to intervene. Read more
An unidentified caller made a hoax bomb threat call to Medanta hospital on Thursday afternoon, prompting security agencies to call in the bomb squad.
The FIR registered on the complaint of Dr Sanjeev Gupta, medical director, Medanta hospital, said that at 12.15 pm, they received a threatening call at their call centre at Medanta hospital from an unknown number. Read more
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched an attack against the BJP Thursday, accusing it of “hating” BR Ambedkar and wanting to do away with elections. He was addressing the Delhi Assembly during the ongoing budget session.
Kejriwal alleged that the BJP-run Centre had pressured the State Election Commission (SEC) to postpone MCD elections because it was scared of going up against a “small party (AAP)”. Read more