| To create quality industrial infrastructure and promote development, Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, while presenting his maiden budget, said the state government had made an allocation of Rs 28.30 crore for it, higher than the allocation of Rs 33 lakh last year.
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| This is despite the promised Rs 100 crore industrial subsidy being shifted to the non-Plan part of the budget.
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| For the existing industrial focal points he has allocated Rs 10 crore and Rs 14 crore for the creation of new industrial focal points.
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| He said the state government planned to make Punjab a power surplus state by the end of the Eleventh Plan. This year, the outlay for energy has increased from Rs 924 crore in 2006-07 to Rs 1062 crore.
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| He said the second phase of the Lehra Mohabat Thermal plant would be commissioned in the current year. Badal also enhanced the allocations for civil aviation from Rs 89 lakh last year to Rs 33.78 crore this year. He proposed Rs. 25 crore for expanding the Amritsar International Airport and Sahnewal Flying Club.
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| An allocation was made for acquisition of land for a flying academy near Talwandi Sao. He added that upgrading Patiala Aviation Club was planned, with an allocation of Rs 4 crore.
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| He confirmed that the government remained committed to securing an early sanction for developing Halwara as an international airport and upgrading the status of Chandigarh to an international airport.
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| He also laid special thrust on welfare of scheduled castes, backward classes and other weaker sections of the soceity. |
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