Thiruvananthapuram : The State Budget envisages 25-year development plan for Kerala and arrays alternative policies, said CPI(M) State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. This Budget is designed taking into view the limitations and possibilities arising out of current times. It seeks to convert Kerala into a science-oriented community that relates effectively to the production process, said Kodiyeri.
The Budget also seeks to protect the agricultural sector by rendering farm produce with value-addition. There will be more jobs generated in the co-operative sector. Strengthening of IT sector and promoting startups are aimed to help job aspirants among the educated class.
The Budget also features modernisation of traditional industries in order to conserve them. The Budget also addresses global warming and consequential climate change. Also featured in the Budget is effort toward awareness against war.
The Budget also makes provisions to attract private investments conducive to development for the state. The Budget also provides for upliftment of the section calling for special care namely the schedule caste, schedule tribe, fish workers and women community. Upping educational benefits for children of SC/ST community is continued endeavour is part of this effor. Also notable is the Rainbow scheme to help trans people with jobs and render them social protection.
The Budget also arrays projects to encourage sports activity among the Kerala community that’s now become grappled with lifestyle ailments. The Budget also features steps toward making Kerala an exemplary convergent point for healthcare. This Budget also comprises strides towards raising our living standards on par with developed countries in the next 25 years. This is why the Budget lays emphasis for eradication of extreme poverty, provision of housing for the needy and ensuring pure drinking water.
Steps towards that goal in the Budget also includes, implementing decentralisation, reaching out govt services to people effectively, ensuring food safety, curbing of inflation, improvising standards of higher eduction and taking huge strides in the research sector.
This Budget thus arrays measures to counter Centre’s pro-globalisation policy of destroying the public sector, pulling back of support for the agricultural sector and derailing food safety. This Budget is another step toward the government’s goal to build Nava Kerala(a new Kerala) , said Kodiyeri in his statement.
