Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Mar 26: Manish Sisodia, the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, proposed on Saturday to establish an electronic city in the national capital to create 80,000 jobs, with the goal of increasing employment prospects and boosting electronics manufacturing.
He announced this during his budget presentation for fiscal year 2022-23 that an electronic city will be built at Baprola.
“We will set up an electronic city at Baprola in Delhi to create 80,000 jobs through electronics manufacturing,” Sisodia said.
According to him, the move will also draw IT firms to the nation’s capital.
“We intend to build the electronic city to create jobs. We will also set up a 90-acre plug-and-play manufacturing centre to attract electronic companies to set up base in Delhi. The redevelopment of the non-conforming industrial areas will be done to create six lakh new jobs,” Sisodia said.
On Saturday, he presented a Rs 75,800 crore budget to the Assembly for the fiscal year 2022-23.
For the fiscal year 2021-22, the budget was Rs 69,000 crore. The budget for 2022-23 is 9.86% larger than the previous year’s budget.
This is the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) government’s seventh budget in a row. The budget for 2022-23, according to Sisodia, is a ‘Rozgar Budget.’
