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Union Budget 2014: Top 10 "watch outs" for Delhi

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the maiden budget of Narendra Modi government for the financial year 2014-14 on 10 July 2014 in the parliament. The government came out with several schemes, reforms, projects


5. Delhi Metro

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley allocated a total of Rs 3,470.16 crores for the ongoing progress of the works related to Phase III of Delhi Metro Rail Transit System project and expansion of Metro lines in the national capital region.

Apart from this, the ministry of urban development will infuse Rs 838.07 crores as equity to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's Phase III expansion.


6. Central Assistance

The Delhi government was allotted Rs 349 crore in the Union Budget as central assistance for 2014-15. However, it is Rs 682 crore less as compared to last year's provision of Rs 1,031 crore.


7. Compensation for 1984 Victims
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has allocated Rs 50 lakh for enhanced compensation for 1984 riot victims. This fund can never heal the scars but surely can help the victims live a better life then before.

This massacre which happened three decades ago is still alive in the minds of people who suffered inhumanity and lost their near and dear ones.

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