Yogi government tables Supplementary Budget of over Rs 80 billion

Allocates Rs 5 billion for airports in Noida, Ayodhya

Amid din by the opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath government on Wednesday tabled its second Supplementary Budget of the current fiscal 2018-19 totalling over Rs 80 billion. 

The budgetary proposals include Rs 5 billion for two airports, including the Greenfield Jewar International Airport in Noida and an airstrip in the temple town of Ayodhya.

In the first Supplementary Budget tabled in August 2018, the government had sought additional funds worth Rs 348 billion for ongoing projects. Together with the Annual Budget 2018-19 of Rs 4.28 trillion and the two Supplementary Budgets of Rs 348 billion and Rs 80 billion respectively,