New Delhi Mar 26 PTI With an aim to boost employment opportunities and give an impetus to electronics manufacturing Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday proposed to set up an electronic city in the national capital to create 80000 jobsThe announcement was made during his budget presentation for the financial 2022-23 The electronic city will come up at BaprolaWe will set up an electronic city at Baprola in Delhi to create 80000 jobs through electronics manufacturing Sisodia said in his budget speechHe said the move will also attract IT companies to the national capitalWe intend to build the electronic city to create jobs We will also set up a 90-acre plug-and-play manufacturing centre to attract electronic companies to set up base in Delhi The redevelopment of the non-conforming industrial areas will be done to create six lakh new jobs Sisodia saidThe deputy chief minister presented a Rs 75800 crore budget in the Assembly for the financial year 2022-23 on SaturdayThe budget size for the financial year 2021-22 was Rs 69000 crore The budget size for 2022-23 is 986 per cent higher than the previous yearThis is the eighth consecutive budget of the Aam Aadmi Party AAP governmentSisodia said the 2022-23 budget is a Rozgar Budget PTI AKM RC

New Delhi Oct 20 PTI It is in the states interest to ensure citizens get subsidised foodgrains easily the Delhi High Court said as it asked the Delhi government to examine the feasibility of opening fair price shops in localities from where the nearest outlet is 25 km awayHearing a plea by residents of the Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojana Phase-2 Baprola for opening of a fair price shop FPS in the area Justice Najmi Waziri said it is appropriate that an FPS is opened either in the locality itself or in its immediate vicinity so that the poorest of the poor are served well by the stateThe Delhi government told the court that since there are only 320 ration card holders in the area it might not be feasible for an FPS licensee to operate a shop there with a small amount of margin-money of Rs 2 per kilogram of foodgrains as each FPS caters to about 1000 ration card holdersThe court noted that under the guidelines issued by the Delhi government for allotment of FPS outlets in certain special circumstances such as for areas inhabited by poorer sections of the society an FPS can be opened for lesser numbers as wellIn the special facts and circumstances it is appropriate that the Delhi government open an FPS in the aforesaid place or in the immediate vicinity as indicated hereinabove so that the poorest of the poor are served well by the state It is in the interest of the state to ensure that citizens do not have to chart their ways through difficult areas simply to get foodgrains at subsidised prices the judge opined in his order passed on October 12Let the GNCTD look into the matter afresh the judge added as he sought a compliance affidavit by November 30The residents of the locality moved the court earlier this year alleging that they were to be provided a FPS in the vicinity of their residential colony but no such development has taken place in more than two yearsThe counsel for the petitioners said more than 800 families residing in the colony seek an FPS and that a portion of the community centre in the area has already been earmarked for itThe court was informed that the residents seeking the opening of an FPS belonged to the economically weaker section and had to walk through deserted stretches and forest areas to fetch rations from an outlet located approximately 25 km awayThe morsel of food comes at a palpable cost to the safety and security for such residents the plea saidThe matter would be heard next on December 8 PTI ADS IJT

New Delhi [India], September 20 (ANI): A 21-year-old student of class 11 was arrested from the Ranhola police station area in the national capital for allegedly attacking his school teacher with an iron rod, police said on Monday.