Pre-budget consultation meet with Sitharaman: Rs. 700 Cr allocated for Tripura & demands for 2023-24 placed

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Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma today attended a pre-budget consultation meeting with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi today. The deputy Chief minister had thanked the Union Finance Minister for increasing the allocation under ‘Scheme for Financial Assistance to States for Capital Investment’ by over six-folds to 1 lakh crore, out of which 700 crore rupees has been allocated for Tripura under the scheme for various projects in the financial year 2022-23.

The Deputy Chief Minister had submitted a few demands to the Union Finance Minister for the upcoming Union Budget of 2023-24. These demands include setting up of AIIMS like institution in Agartala Government Medical College Hospital Complex which will immensely benefit people of the state with prime health care facilities and hence boost health tourism, allocation of 414 crore rupees for establishment of Dental College in Agartala, a special financial package of 500 crore rupees for accelerating all round development of TTAADC areas, setting up of an Integrated plant for production of Grey Fertilizer and Green Hydrogen in partnership with the Government of India (the plant will use emerging green technologies for producing grey fertilizer and green hydrogen using abundant natural gas and clean energy sources in the state), funding support of 100 crore rupees for Solar Micro Grids in rural and tribal areas (the state government plans to connect all the tribal hamlets which are still to be connected through power grid with solar micro grids in the next two to three years with an investment of 100 crore rupees), Dhaka-Agartala air connectivity, construction of alternate railway lines – one between Pecharthal-Kailsahar-Dharmanagar and another between Belonia- Sabroom-Kailasahar for easy movement of goods and ease to commute and allocation of 200 crore rupees for establishment of National Law University in Tripura.