UP Budget 2018: Yogi Adityanath hikes minorities welfare budget by 11%

Yogi Adiyanath has stressed on PM Modi's "Sabka sath sabka vikas" motto for UP's state budget 2018

In the election year, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has hiked the minorities welfare department budget by over 11% to Rs 27.57 billion.

In the 2017-18 state budget, the Adityanath government had in fact slashed minorities department budget by almost 19% to Rs 24.75 billion from Rs 30.55 billion in 2016-17, when Akhilesh Yadav was at the helm (2012-17).

Besides, UP Budget 2018, presented on Friday, has provided Rs 4.04 billion for the scheme to modernise state Arabic-Persian madrasas. The government has allocated Rs 4.86 billion for the Arabic medium schools. A budgetary grant of Rs 2.15 billion has