• In agriculture (grant number 11) Rs. 36687.31 crores  was allocated in the year 2017-18 but only Rs. 20403.49 crores (55.61%) has been spent until Jan 2018. Similarly the expenditure for ST (Grant 81) is 24.16 %, Scheduled Castes (grant 83) is 45.69%, Handicapped & Backward Class (grant 79) is 26 %, Women & child is 43.3% and Forest Department is 47.56 %. The entire orientation of this year’s budget is away from that of a welfare state and meant to benefit only the private sector and the corporate sector. Examples can be seen from the Agriculture loan / insurance scheme and observations of Comptroller and Auditor General(CAG) of India and also from the allocations made for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.
• The subsidy on certified seeds was Rs. Rs. 65 crores in the year 20117-18 and has been substantially reduced to Rs. 55 crores in the year 2018-19.  Similarly several other schemes that benefits to the farmers have been reduced budgetary allocations. The overall budget is against the interest of farmers.
• Forest working people have suffered from the relief as the Adityanath government has abandoned many schemes that directly benefit them. The Social Forestry (CCL) District Plan, expenditure for which in the previous year (2016-17) was Rs  230.51 crores has been reduced to Rs. 120 crores in the year 2018-19.
• For Dalits (Scheduled Castes), only  Rs. 24,448 Cr has been allocated. Shockingly, within this allocation, as much as Rs. 2307 crores, close to ten per cent, is loan to power sector companies! Rs. 1713 crores is for canal and highways construction. Allocations in schemes like dairy, fisheries, sugar cane subsidy, etc. have been reduced drastically or abandoned.
• The Labour department (Employment) has started winding up its offices by reducing budget in the activities that matters for employment exchanges and employment to the youth. For example, while there is an allocation of Rs 66 crores for Employment Exchange offices, in the year 2018-19, within this, the allocation for facilitating training and distributing materials is a minimal Rs. 0.151 crore for the entire state.
• The UP state Health department has made a mockery of the budget making process. It appears to have manipulated figures in sections on ‘ increase and decrease’ in salary and ‘charges for professional and other services’. The amounts involved in this reduction and increase section is exactly Rs. 1177.84 crores. Similar lapses can be found everywhere in health sections of the state budget.
• For Women and Child Welfare, the budgetary allocation has been increased from Rs. 6353 Cr to Rs. 7481 crores, but within this, schemes like like maternal welfare, nutritional feeding to malnourished children, nutritional feeding to pregnant women have been abandoned and find no space in the fiscal allocations.

Overall picture of State Budget is just another Jumla and the state government wants to sell the illusion of Achchhe Din to the people.
 
The UP State Budget 2018-19 was released on 16th February, 2018. An analysis of the same, from the perspective of the marginalised sections of the State was released on February 26, 2018 at Uttar Pradesh Press Club in Lucknow
 
 

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Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J.
Hon'ble Umesh Chandra Srivastava,J.

An amendment application as well as supplementary affidavit have been filed today by learned counsel for the petitioners which are taken on record.

Heard Sri S.F.A. Naqvi, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Ashish Pandey, learned A.G.A. assisted by Sri Imran Saiyed, learned Brief Holder for the State.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that on 24.3.2017, the matter was heard by this Court on the recall/restoration application as well as on merit but due to some defect in the prayer of recall/restoration application, amendment was required in the prayer of recall/restoration application, hence he has filed the amendment application today. He prays that the same may be allowed.
Considering the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the petitioners and the averments made in the amendment application, the amendment application filed in Crl. Misc. Recall/Restoration Application No. 428513 of 2015 is hereby allowed.

Office is directed to allot regular number to it.

Learned counsel for the petitioners is directed to make necessary amendment in the said recall/restoration application during the course of the day.
Considered the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.

From a perusal of the record, it appears that the matter of sanction regarding prosecution of the accused persons is pending before the State Government and the question of grant of sanction for prosecution is to be decided by the Head of the State Government, who himself is a prime accused in the present F.I.R. lodged by petitioner no. 1.

As the said question which has crop up in the matter before this Court requires proper adjudication, learned counsel for the parties are directed to assist the Court in the matter on the next date fixed by placing legal proposition of law in the matter.

Put up the matter for further argument on 4.5.2017.

(Umesh Chandra Srivastava, J. (Ramesh Sinha, J.)
Order Date :- 28.4.2017
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