Hazaribag parliamentarian and senior BJP leader, Jayant Sinha has hailed the union budget claiming that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget has tried to address the concern of all sections of society. Sinha, the former minister of state for finance said that a State such as Jharkhand will be largely benefitted with the union budget.

Highlighting slew of benefits Jharkhand is going to reap from union budget, he said, “The budget announcement to set up tribal museum in Ranchi will help the State in making a mark in tourist map of the Country. With coming up of tribal museum in Ranchi, Jharkhand will become an epicenter of tribal culture and society.” Sinha said that the tribal museum will be on lines of Bihar Museum in Patna which is a world class museum.

The Bihar Museum is spread across 13.5 acres along Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, better known as Bailey Road, and has been built at a cost of Rs 500 crore. The Bihar Museum which is brainchild of chief minister Nitish Kumar has eight blocks, all inter-connected and having seven galleries which includes Orientation, Children's, History, Visible Storage, Historical Art, Regional Art, and Bihari Diaspora.

However, chief minister Hemant Soren who is unhappy with centre’s gift of tribal museum quipped, “Adivasiyon ko museum mein rakhne ki taiyari hai (Preparation to keep tribals in museum).” He said that he had asked the Prime Minister for a tribal university in the state, not a museum.

Reacting on Soren’s demand, Sinha said, “The Union Government is ready to give even tribal university to state provided the State Government provides land for setting up tribal university in State.”  Soren last month on his visit to New Delhi after becoming Chief Minister met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested him to set up a tribal university in State.

Sinha also said that apart from Centre’s gift of tribal museum to state, the Modi government has allocated a sum of Rs 53,700 crore for tribal welfare. He said, “The fund will be used in social, educational and economic development of tribals. As Jharkhand is tribal state with large chunk of population being tribals, people of state will be largely benefited.”

Sinha said that finance minister’s announcement to develop 100 more airports by 2025 under UDAN scheme will benefit Jharkhand. He said, “The Airports in Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Hazaribag and Dumka will be developed in coming years, while the Deoghar airport will start operation soon.”

He said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had presented an all-inclusive budget with the view to double the income of farmers.

The announcement regarding opening of medical colleges and Jan Arogya centres in all districts are praiseworthy.