Union Home Minister Amit Shah may be on a -day visit to Gujarat from Wednesday. This can be Shah’s first visit to his home State after taking the price as Home Minister.

During the 2-day visit, Shah will attend a sequence of public features, inaugurate several public projects and attend the Aarti before the Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath temple in Ahmedabad on Thursday.

The Gujarat unit chief of the BJP, Jitu Vaghani, informed that Shah would arrive at Ahmedabad in the afternoon on July three. He will be given a grand welcome by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and his Deputy Nitin Patel at the airport.

The Union Home Minister is scheduled to inaugurate a flyover in Ahmedabad and dedicate numerous public tasks, including a network corridor, a library, and five Talati offices in Gandhinagar.
Party meeting

Shah can even preserve a meeting with the party people from his Parliamentary constituency, Gandhinagar, except by meeting with senior party leaders at some stage in his stay.

On Tuesday, the Gujarat government supplied a changed price range for 2019-20 with a typical surplus of Rs 572 crore; at the same time, the State Finance Minister Nitin Patel proposed an additional tax income of Rs 287 crore.

In February this yr, before the General Elections, the country authorities had presented a vote-on-account with gross surplus estimates of Rs 12,241 crore with no tax proposals.

Historic finances

On Tuesday’s first day of the monsoon session, Patel presented his 7th budget as finance minister, with a price range of Rs 2,04,815 crore for the yr 2019-20, which has created records in itself. “This is an ancient moment for the nation as it is the first time since the country’s formation that a finances length of over Rs 2 lakh crore has been offered on this house.”

In the modified price range, Patel predicted revenue receipts of Rs 1 fifty-four 732 crores and revenue expenditure of Rs 1 fifty-one 858 crores for 2019-20. Capital receipts are envisioned at Rs 43,215 crore, even as capital expenditure, loans, and advances are expected at Rs 51,004 crore.

The Budget, Patel stated, focused mainly on five sectors: water control, inexperienced and clean energy, the surroundings, agriculture and farmers’ welfare, and employment.

Clean electricity in consciousness

Patel promised that the national authorities would spend approximately Rs 20,000 crore over the subsequent three years to ensure that no Gujarat household became left without tap consuming water. In the peaceful power area, the kingdom plans to boom its set up to 30,000 megawatts (Mw) using 2022, from 8885 MW currently. The nation is preparing to sell 10,000 MW to other states. To inspire roof-pinnacle solar strength generation, a subsidy of forty in keeping with cent for up to a few kW structures and 20 consistent with cent for potential in the variety of 3-10 kW has been announced. This aims to cover 2 lakh families below roof-pinnacle sun tasks; presently, approximately 50,000 households have roof-pinnacle solar facilities.

The finances speech promised strength to all 1.25 lakh pending agricultural power connection requests over 12 months.

The Finance Minister also knowledgeable the house that below the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Yojana rolled out by way of the Centre, a subsidy worth Rs 1,131 crore had already been dispensed because of the first installments to 28 lakh farmers of the state.

Robust nation growth

Patel also said the country’s economy has carried out a remarkable increase of 10 according to the cent (at steady charges) over the last six years, which changed into the best most of the actual states. Keeping up a high increase fee, the financial system has performed eleven. Two consistent with cent boom in 2017-18.

In his tax proposals, Patel proposed to increase the strength responsibility on business gadgets eating captive power. Patel also advised hiking the stamp duty, charged at a set rate at the instruments, while those with ad-valorem expenses had been stored unchanged.