If you ask Uttarakhand Finance Minister Prakash Pant to highlight some of the significant announcements in the Budget that he presented in the state Assembly, he would quickly count more than a dozen new schemes mostly in the social sector.
But the fact is the Budget in the hill state is never seen as a serious document. After the inception of Uttarakhand, all the Budgets presented in the state Assembly have remained tax-free, with hardly any new announcements to spur growth.
The trend continued in 2017-18 when Pant presented his maiden Budget in the House. The Budget in the hill
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