Delhi News Live Updates: Government employees, income taxpayers and those who are getting pensions will not be eligible for the Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana
Delhi Budget 2024-25 Live Updates: Delhi Finance Minister Atishi announced the launch of the ‘Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana’ during her budget speech on Monday. The scheme will provide Rs 1,000 monthly to women above the age of 18 starting from the fiscal year 2024-25, but government employees, income taxpayers and those who are getting pensions will not be eligible.”The Kejriwal government will give a monthly amount of Rs 1,000 to every woman aged 18 or above. Under the Mukyamnatri Mahila Samman Yojana, women will be given this benefit,” she said.
As Delhi Finance Minister Atishi presented the Delhi government’s Rs 76,000 crore budget on Monday, she said that the budget allocation was down by Rs 2000 crores from last year. The Delhi government has allocated Rs 16,396 crore for education in FY25, which comes to around 21% of the budget outlay, she informed. “In 2014, the GSDP of Delhi was Rs 4.95 lakh crores and in the last ten years, the GDSP of Delhi has increased two and a half times to Rs 11.08 lakh crores,” she said.
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Government sources have stated that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in response to the latest ED summons regarding the excise policy case, expressed his willingness to appear before the agency via video-conferencing after March 12. Kejriwal has so far skipped multiple summonses of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), calling them illegal and asking the agency to wait as the matter was in court.
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In North Delhi, epitaph at British soldier’s bare gravesite symbol of wife’s love
Walking up the steep road in the Kamla Nehru Ridge, near Delhi University’s North Campus, it is hard to miss the famous Flagstaff Tower, where the families of British personnel took refuge in 1857 as they waited for help to arrive during the Sepoy Mutiny. Barely 200 metres down the line lies another site that dates back to the same period, although not much is known about it except for a board announcing: “Grave of Lt. Edwards and Others”.
Nayanjot Lahiri’s research in “Commemorating and Remem-bering 1857: The Revolt in Delhi and Its Afterlife” reveals that during the revolt, the British found bodies of their deceased officers on a cart near the tower.
The four men were then given a suitable burial; H C Fanshawe’s Delhi Past and Present records the inscription. It says: “The inscription on the gravestone runs thus: ‘Sacred to the memory of Captain R. M. Smith, Captain C. Burrowes, Lt. C. A. Edwards, Lt. W. Waterfield, all of the 34th Regiment, B.N.I. They were killed by the mutineers of the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry… opposite the church in the city of Delhi. This tribute to their memory is erected by their surviving brother officers.”
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First uploaded on: 04-03-2024 at 09:47 IST
Aisha Patel is a dedicated Indian correspondent with a deep understanding of the nation’s diverse affairs. With a background in Indian culture, politics, and current events, she provides in-depth analysis and timely reporting on domestic issues within India.
