Delhi CM Rekha Gupta presents ‘historic’ Rs 1 lakh crore budget
Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday presented Budget 2025-26 in the state Assembly, saying that it has ten focus areas including infrastructure development, electricity, roads, and water.
This is the newly formed Bharatiya Janata Party-led government’s first budget for the national capital.
While presenting the Budget in the state assembly, CM Gupta termed it as a “historic budget” of the Delhi government. “This is not an ordinary Budget, this Budget is the first step to develop Delhi which was ruined in the past 10 years. Delhi went down in every aspect of development in the past decade. The previous government ruined the economic health of the national capital like termites,” said Gupta, who also holds the Finance portfolio.
This year’s budget, of ₹1 lakh crore, has been upped by 31.5 per cent from the previous. Stating the days of “corruption and inefficiency” are over, Gupta announced that the capital expenditure budget has been doubled to Rs 28,000 crore.