Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday announced in the Legislative Assembly that his government would provide one lakh new jobs to unemployed youths in the next fiscal year 2023-24.

Giving a reply on his budget speech after four days of debate cutting across the party lines, Gehlot said the beneficiaries of CM-Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme would now be able to get facilities of organ transplants of lung, bone marrow, kidney, liver and heart in other states too under the proposed limit of Rs.25 lakh.

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He proposed a budgetary support of Rs 50 crore in the first phase to Community Health Centres (CHCs), and under the social security benefit, the married disabled son or daughter of the deceased employee would be eligible for the family pension plan.

To meet the challenge of animal carcasses like in the Lumpy Disease disaster, the CM announced that a Carcass Plants for disposal of perished cattle which die of severe diseases would be set up at a cost of Rs.75 crores.

On the pattern of Central Industrial Security Force, the CM told the House that Rajasthan Industrial Security Force would be created and two processes of constituting two battalions were under process.

On the tourism, art and culture fronts, altogether 5000 Paryatak Mitra would be hired and 75 vehicles would be purchased for security and assistance of tourists, he said.

In his 32 pages of new schemes in agriculture, able administration, home, forest and environment, energy, drinking water and groundwater, school education and roads and maintenance, the Chief Minister made separate budgetary support based on the demands of MLAs who participated in the debate on his budget speech.

Earlier, participating in the debate as a Leader of Opposition (as G C Kataria has been designated as Governor of Assam rpt Assam), Satish Poonia alleged that in last four years of its rule the Congress government had given political instability due to internal bickering of its MLAs. Making a mock of ‘Bachat. Rahat. Badhat’, Poonia said it turn out to be “Chapat. Khapat. Doobat” (Slap on the face of Janta, Consumption. Sink).