Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Khanna on Wednesday presented the annual budget for the financial year 2023-24 and highlighted the 16.8% growth in the state’s GDP. It was the second budget for the Yogi Adityanath 2.0 government after the BJP, led by him, was re-elected in March last year.
“The state has recorded a 16.8% increase in the GDP, which is higher than the national growth rate,” Khanna said in his budget speech. He said the unemployment rate, which was 14.4% before 2017, has come down to 4.2per cent.
