THE Bengal budget for the current financial year (FY) has prioritised visibly and impressively the empowerment of the poor in setting out its budgetary allocations and allotments. The budget attaches great emphasis on land development, agriculture, capitalised industries, big-small-medium, education, literacy, and mass health.
The infrastructural development will be done in a way and manner that the result will be the continuous upliftment social-economic political in the sense of empowerment of the poorest of the poor. In particular, small landholders and small traders will reap the biggest chunk of the financial and infrastructural benefits.
Opportunities and avenues multitiered and multifaceted shall open up before the mass of the people for economic development. The increase in the linear growth of production shall be of beneficent help to the enhancement of employment and widening of the income base.
The consequences of development-oriented growth of the economy, pro-people and pro-poor, shall encompass not merely certain sections of the populace and certain quarters of the topography %u2013 but shall expand over the comparatively backward societal tiers, and across the urban and rural expanses.
