Budget 2024-25: Delhi Police gets Rs 11,400.81 cr, allocation down by 6%

Budget 2024-25: The Delhi Police has been allotted Rs 11,400.81 crore in the Union Budget for 2024-25, which marks a reduction of 6% compared to the previous fiscal year. In the financial year 2023-2024, the budget allocation for Delhi Police was Rs 11,932.03 crore, a decrease of 4.45%.

However, this amount was later revised to Rs 12,128.83 crore, reflecting a 6% increase. The allocated budget for the police force in the city will cover regular expenses and support various initiatives such as developing a model traffic system and enhancing communication networks in the NCR region.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled the Union Budget for 2024-25 in Parliament on Tuesday.

The Delhi Police is tasked with maintaining and enforcing law and order in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, including overseeing traffic management in the city.

Responsibilities of the Delhi Police also include upgrading and expanding communication infrastructure, incorporating the latest technology into policing, installing traffic signals, and arranging personnel training.

In the meantime, Delhi Finance Minister Atishi expressed dissatisfaction over the fact that despite contributing Rs 2.32 lakh crore in taxes to the BJP-led central government, the national capital did not receive any share in central taxes in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha.

During a press conference, Atishi highlighted that Delhi had requested budgetary support for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) but did not receive even a single rupee from the Centre.

“Delhi is the growth engine of the country. It pays more than Rs 2 lakh crore in income tax to the Centre and Rs 25,000 crore as central GST. Despite paying Rs 2.32 lakh crore in taxes to the Centre, Delhi was asking for just Rs 20,000 crore, which is just 0.4% of the Union Budget. But no money was given as its share in central taxes or to the MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi),” the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader said.

She challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to “show even one thing done for Delhi in the last 11 budgets presented by its government at the Centre.”

“In 11 years, the BJP government at the Centre did not do even one thing for Delhi. The Union Budget has shown to the people of Delhi that the BJP has done nothing for them. The BJP-ruled Centre presented this budget to save itself and it is not for the people of the country,” Atishi said. (With inputs from PTI)