Delhi Budget 2024: ₹1,000 aid per month for every woman, health outlay dips, education gets extra focus — 5 key points

Delhi Finance Minster Atishi Marlena on March 4 presented the ₹ 76,000 crore budget for the financial year 2024-25, themed around the concept of "Ram Rajya." 

In 2022-23, the budget outlay amounted to ₹75,800 crore and ₹69,000 crore, a year before.

said in her budget speech in the state assembly that the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government is trying to realise the dream of Ram Rajya. “We all present here are inspired by Lord Ram. We have been trying day and night for the last nine years to fulfil this dream of ‘,’ she said.

This was Atishi's first budget as finance minister in the Arvind Kejriwal-led . In 2023, the then finance minister Kailash Gehlot presented Delhi's annual budget following the arrest of former finance minister Manish Sisodia in the e. The 2023 budget was based on the “clean, beautiful, and modern" Delhi theme.

In her budget speech, Atishi remembered Manish Sisodia, and Satyendar Jain, former health minister, for their roles in shaping the education and health models in the national capital. 

Both Sisodia and Jain are in jail over cases linked to Delhi liquor policy and money laundering cases. Atishi of Manish Sisodia's mother and wife before presenting the budget on Monday.

Here are five highlights of the Delhi budget

Finance Minister Atishi while presenting the ₹ 76,000 crore budget for FY 24-25 said that the grace of Lord Shri Ram has ensured that there has never been a shortage of funds in the (AAP) government for education, roads, and flyovers in Delhi. She said that in Ram Rajya, nobody will sleep hungry. For this, the Delhi government has allocated a budget of ₹684 crore, Atishi said. 

She said Delhi's was around ₹ 4.95 lakh crore in 2014-15 and has almost tripled to ₹ 11.08 lakh crore in the