{"id":563542,"date":"2023-03-18T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T05:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=563542"},"modified":"2023-03-18T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T07:03:58","slug":"himachal-budget-sukhvinder-singh-sukhu-pitches-for-green-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/himachal-budget-sukhvinder-singh-sukhu-pitches-for-green-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Budget: Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu pitches for &#8216;green state&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite terming Himachal Pradesh\u2019s financial health \u201cgrave\u201d, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Friday announced no fresh taxes while presenting the Budget of Rs 53,413 crore for 2023-24 fiscal year and outlining the plans to make HP a green state by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a desperate bid to generate resources for the cash-strapped state, Sukhu announced that Rs 4,000 crore would be generated from water cess on hydropower generation, Rs 100 crore from Rs 10 as milk cess on every liquor bottle and enhanced revenue from open auction of liquor vends.<\/p>\n<p>Sukhu, who holds the finance portfolio, has tried to give a new direction to make Himachal a \u201cgreen state\u201d by switching to electric vehicles,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite terming Himachal Pradesh\u2019s financial health \u201cgrave\u201d, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Friday announced no fresh taxes while presenting the Budget of Rs 53,413 crore for 2023-24 fiscal year and outlining the plans to make HP a green state by 2026. In a desperate bid to generate resources for the cash-strapped state, Sukhu announced that Rs 4,000 crore would be generated from water cess on hydropower generation, Rs 100 crore from Rs 10 as milk cess on every liquor bottle and enhanced revenue from open auction of liquor vends. Sukhu, who holds the finance portfolio, has tried to give [&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":[130,247,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563542","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=563542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}