After being postponed thrice due to COVID-19, the Khelo India Youth Games-2021 is being held from June 4 to June 13 across multiple venues. Haryana will be hosting the bulk of the events.

Chandigarh Mar 21 PTI Senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday described Haryanas budget for 2022-23 as mere event management and disappointingParticipating in the discussion on budget estimates for 2022-23 the Leader of Opposition said while the government claims it has presented a tax-free budget prices of all essential commodities are beyond the reach of common people due to inflation which is taxation without legislationChief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar who holds the finance portfolio had presented the budget in the House on March 8This budget is just event management and disappointing Hooda saidHe described the budget as the job of an amateur mechanic who has opened up an engine but does not know how to put it back togetherThe government says it has given a tax-free budget But on the other hand prices of all essential commodities are beyond the reach of common people Inflation is taxation without legislation Ask women from common families how difficult it is for them to manage the household budget he saidThe Congress leader also took a dig at the state governments Gram Sanrakshak Yojana under which officers will be adopting a village and working for its development saying if serving and retired officers will oversee development in villages then what is the need of elected panchayats Hooda also targeted the state government for not filling up vacancies in various government departmentsUnder this government about 1 lakh posts are lying vacant in government departments Today there are no teachers in schools no doctors in hospitals and no employees in government offices By not recruiting employees the government has done the work of minimising itselfThe government is not conducting elections to gram panchayats The government is postponing elections but is making unnecessary appointments like good governance associates he saidThe Leader of Opposition said Haryana faces multiple problems and the government has no solutionsThe state is facing problems like inflation unemployment corruption agrarian crisis deteriorating law and order economic slowdown declining investment increasing debt falling education level health services dissatisfaction among employees bad roads increasing poverty and depleting forests but there are no solutions in sight he saidHe alleged the present government has pushed the state into a debt trapThe borrowing rate is higher than the growth rate of GSDP The government has to take loans even to pay off the debt If seen in totality today Haryana has a debt of about Rs 3 lakh crore he saidHooda also accused the government of turning a blind eye to the problem of unemploymentThe former chief minister said the government talked about implementing the new education policy and the plan was to spend 6 per cent of the Gross State Domestic Product GSDP on educationFar from increasing spending on education it has been cut by 1 per cent The attitude of the government towards education can be gauged from the fact that there are 46 colleges in the state that do not even have their own building and 127 colleges do not even have a principal he saidSimilarly in the health sector the government has been announcing medical colleges in every district for many years but not a single medical college has been built till date he saidHooda alleged that almost half the payment of sugarcane farmers is pendingFarmers do not get MSP for different crops including bajra and farmers growing vegetables like potatoes have to sell their crops at a loss Neither do farmers get the proper price for their crops nor do they get DAP and urea fertiliser on timeThe government has been talking about doubling the income of farmers by 2022 but farmers know the reality The input costs of farmers have doubled due to the rising inflation he saidIndian National Lok Dal INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala also participated in the budget discussionHe said the chief minister claimed it was a visionary budget but that did not appear to be the caseBudgetary provisions have been reduced for education and rural development sectors while the state debt is mounting he said PTI SUN VSD DIV DIV