{"id":563472,"date":"2023-03-18T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T05:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=563472"},"modified":"2023-03-18T11:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T06:21:41","slug":"himachals-fy24-budget-focuses-on-restoration-of-old-pension-scheme-green-initiatives-cow-cess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/himachals-fy24-budget-focuses-on-restoration-of-old-pension-scheme-green-initiatives-cow-cess\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal&#8217;s FY24 budget focuses on restoration of old pension scheme, green initiatives, cow cess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Friday presented the budget for 2023-24 with a total outlay of Rs 53,413 crore, announcing women pension, sops for electric vehicles, cow cess on liquor and various other initiatives to become a green state by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In its maiden budget, the Congress-led government announced the first-of-its-kind cow cess of Rs 10 on the sale of each bottle of liquor, even as it made a stride to fulfil various election promises with announcements like a fixed monthly payment for women and subsidies on electric two-wheelers.<\/p>\n<p>The move to impose Cow cess will fetch additional revenue of Rs 100 crore per annum, Sukhu said.<\/p>\n<p>The chief minister said his government aims to make Himachal Pradesh a green state by 2026 by promoting hydropower and solar energy through the adoption of electric vehicles to check pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Friday presented the budget for 2023-24 with a total outlay of Rs 53,413 crore, announcing women pension, sops for electric vehicles, cow cess on liquor and various other initiatives to become a green state by 2026. In its maiden budget, the Congress-led government announced the first-of-its-kind cow cess of Rs 10 on the sale of each bottle of liquor, even as it made a stride to fulfil various election promises with announcements like a fixed monthly payment for women and subsidies on electric two-wheelers. The move to impose Cow cess will fetch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}