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Rajasthan's fiscal deficit worsened in Congress regime: Raje

Jaipur: Newly-elected Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today asserted that improving the state's economy will be her top priority, saying fiscal situation had worsened in the previous Congress regime with the deficit touching 2.48 per

PTI Published : Dec 23, 2013 21:21 IST, Updated : Dec 23, 2013 21:29 IST
BJP in its poll manifesto has promised to provide 15 lakh jobs in the next five years, she recalled, and said the government would make efforts to provide good education and technical education to young people so that they could get better jobs in future.

The new government would try its best to improve development growth, minimise mother and child mortality rates, reduce drop-out rate of school children, and work on all-round development of the state, the Chief Minister said.

BJP's election manifesto was adopted as an official document and be treated as a policy draft, she said, adding the official machinery should follow it strictly.

Recalling her first term in Rajasthan government 2003-08, Raje said she wanted to take out the state from the category of ‘Bimaru rajya' (sick state) then, but the state did not come out of this category in last five years due to poor economic situation.

“Our main mantra is development, and to achieve it the state government would take up all welfare schemes and infrastructure plans,” she said.

She also advocated for administrative reforms, women empowerment, SC/ST/OBC and minorities' welfare and their various schemes to be energised with a pace.
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