BUDGET BONANZA

In last Budget of its 10-year rule, SAD-BJP government goes into populist overdrive, showers a slew of sops to woo various sections before the 2017 Punjab assembly polls

WOOING WOMEN

bags Swasth with Kanya stationery Yojna: to School class1-12 schoolgirls

Kanya health care kits to class 6 to 12 government school girls

Interest rate reduced from 9% to 5% per annum on Rs 50,000 loan under Mai Bhago scheme. 3 new working women hostels to come up with daycare facility for children

638 new anganwadi centres and 20 mini-anganwadi centres to be set up under Nanhi Chaan Skill Centres in rural areas.

FARM FILLIP

Interest-free loan of

` 50,000 per crop to farmers having land holding up to 5 acres. Farmers provident fund-cum-pension scheme: Government will make a matching annual contribution to it. At 60, a farmer will get monthly pension equal to interest on accumulated corpus.

Kisan Vikas Chamber in SAS Nagar

1.65 lakh new tubewells

YOUTH CONNECT

One lakh youth to benefit from 200 skill development centres — one centre in each block — in rural areas

4,000 modern gyms to come up in towns and villages, youth clubs to get free sports kits

FOCUS ON POOR

` 100-cr corpus to redress fee woes of SC students for higher education.

Uniforms, school bags and stationery to the children of SC families working as agricultural workers.

Round-the-clock power supply to identified 8,263 deras and dhanis.

MISSION EDUCATION

400 middle schools will be upgraded to high schools, while 400 high schools to senior secondary in 2016-17.

RURAL ROADMAP

200 smart villages will get facilities such as 4G, solar street lights, sewa kendras, sewerage and drainage facilities, bank branch and model school.

` 5 lakh grant to villages for common crematorium, in case villagers agree. Step aimed at creating brotherhood in villages. 735 villages would be covered each year under this scheme.

Awards for gram panchayats for doing outstanding work. Rs 5 lakh, Rs 3 lakh and Rs 1 lakh will be given in each district.

BUILDING BOOM

50% rebate on CLU, EDC and licence fee on all affordable housing projects.

50% rebate on stamp duty charges on all conveyance deeds in the affordable housing sector.

20% reduction in stamp duty on the first purchase conveyance deed of all new flats if available at affordable price.

Proposed to reduce collector rates by at least 15%.

25% rebate on CLU, EDC and licence fee on all new housing sector projects

INDUSTRY INCENTIVES

High tech cycle valley to be set up in Ludhiana

Industrial manufacturing cluster near Rajpura

Reduced VAT on cotton and other type of yarns from 6% to 3.63%.

No taxes on agricultural inputs for food processing industry.

PANTH AND PRESS

` 50 cr allocated for 350th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Gobind Singh

` 140 cr for Mukh Mantri Tirath Yatra scheme

Cashless medical facilities on par with govt staff for accredited reporters