Punjab CM hails Budget as People-Friendly & Aimed at Multi-Sectoral Growth

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday hailed the state’s Budget 2018-19 as a milestone one, with its focus on multi-sectoral growth, and expressed the confidence that it would put the state on the path of high growth. The current budget had taken due care of all sectors of state, be agriculture, industry, health, education, employment generation or, above all, the welfare of disadvantaged sections of the society, said the Chief Minister. Captain Amarinder recalled that his government’s maiden budget last year had been an endeavour to improve the fiscal health of the State through meticulous long term-planning. Taking a step forward, this year’s growth-oriented budget presented by Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal would further consolidate the recovery that the state had started showing in the shape of its improved financial health, he added. The Chief Minister said that this Budget would prove to be a milestone to achieve the target of fiscal consolidation as mandated by the 14th Finance Commission for all the states, besides putting Punjab in the orbit of high-growth trajectory.