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Budget 2019-20: J'khand govt announces more than a dozen new schemes in Election year

Ranchi, Jan 22 (UNI) Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today laid the annual budget of the state for the financial year 2019-20 in the floor of the assembly worth Rs 85,249 crore.
However, keeping in mind the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections which will take place in 2019 the government has announced more than a dozen new schemes catering broadly to agriculture, rural development, education and health.
Among them the most important is the Mukhyamantri Krishi Aashirwad Yojana for which a provision of Rs 2,000 crore has been made in the budget. Under the scheme, the farmers would be provided Rs 5,000 for per acre of land and 28 lakh small and medium farmers who are dependent on agriculture for their living would be covered under the scheme. The money would be transferred into the accounts of the farmers through DBT.
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