The AAP-led Delhi government on Monday presented its fourth Outcome Budget on the first day of the Delhi Assembly’s budget session for 2021-22. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia presented the fourth outcome budget, where the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government highlighted its achievements in various departments such as Education, Health, Transport, Revenue, Food and Civil Supply and Labour.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the Finance portfolio, presenting the fourth outcome budget, said: "Delhi government is the only state government that makes suo-moto disclosure of its performance to promote transparency and accountability in public spending. The outcome budget is a report card on how various departments have performed based on the funds allocated under Annual Budget 2020-21." Sisodia said that during lockdown, the Delhi government launched the series of 'Parenting in the time of Corona' in which, up to 98 per cent students received worksheets while 89-90 per cent of students of 11th and 12th grades attended online classes. The Delhi government carried out educational activities for 229 days whereas a normal session lasts 220 days.
On the revenue front, the Delhi government said it mitigated basic inequalities caused due to the pandemic and the revenue department set up as many as 1,914 hunger relief centers at the government-run schools for the period over three months.
The government claimed that cooked meals were provided twice a day to over 10 lakh people. Apart from these the AAP government also set-up 260 night shelters, booked 252 trains for migrant workers and provided an ex-gratia relief amount of Rs 1 crore to each of the families of 9 frontline workers who died due to Covid-19.
Sisodia said that responding quickly to the Covid -19 crisis, the Delhi government implemented a comprehensive Covid-19 response strategy. He said that Covid-19 tests of 87.8 lakh people was done in the national capital.
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