Punjab Budget Session 2022 concludes with nod to 4 Bills
Punjab Budget Session on Thursday concluded with nod to 4 bills, namely
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With the Centre holding back Punjab’s Rural Development Fund (RDF) to the tune of Rs 1150 crore, the state also tabled an amendment Bill to Punjab Rural Development Act that provided for spending 1 per cent of Rural Development Funds (RDF) on waiving farm loans. Incidentally, the Centre had objected to the section of Punjab Rural Development Act that provided for spending 1 per cent of the RDF on waiving farm loans. The Centre had stated that RDF, levied by Punjab on Centre while procuring food grains for the Central pool, could not be used for a populist scheme.
The state Cabinet had earlier approved the Punjab Rural Development (Amendment) Ordinance, 2022, but the Punjab Governor had returned the file stating that the government should take the Bill to the Vidhan Sabha and get it passed there, instead of the ordinance. In the Bill now, the government has amended the Punjab Rural Development Act, 1987 on lines of the revised principles laid down by Centre’s Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs.
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-PTC News 
