Health and Wellbeing
There is substantial increase in investment in Health Infrastructure and the Budget outlay for Health and Wellbeing is Rs 2,23,846 crore in BE 2021-22 as against this year’s BE of Rs 94,452 crore, an increase of 137 percentage.
The Finance Minister announced that a new centrally sponsored scheme, PM AatmaNirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana, will be launched with an outlay of about Rs 64, 180 crore over 6 years. This will develop capacities of primary, secondary, and tertiary care Health Systems, strengthen existing national institutions, and create new institutions, to cater to detection and cure of new and emerging diseases. This will be in addition to the National Health Mission.
1. Health and Wellbeing
3. Inclusive Development for Aspirational India
4. Reinvigorating Human Capital
6. Minimum Government and Maximum Governance
1. Health and Wellbeing
There is substantial increase in investment in Health Infrastructure and the Budget outlay for Health and Wellbeing is Rs2,23,846 crore in BE 2021-22 as against this year’s BE of
Rs94,452 crore, an increase of 137 percentage.
The Finance Minister announced that a new centrally sponsored scheme,
PM AatmaNirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana, will be launched with an outlay of about Rs 64, 180 crore over 6 years. This will develop capacities of primary, secondary, and tertiary care Health Systems, strengthen existing national institutions, and create new institutions, to cater to detection and cure of new and emerging diseases. This will be in addition to the National Health Mission.
Union Budget 2021: Here is Full Text of Nirmala Sitharaman s Address at the Parliament
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Introduction
Honourable Speaker, the preparation of this Budget was undertaken in circumstances like never before. We knew of calamities that have affected a country or a region within a country, but what we have endured with COVID-19 through 2020 is sui generis. RELATED NEWS
When I presented the Budget 2020-21, we could not have imagined that the global economy, already in throes of a slowdown, would be pushed into an unprecedented contraction.
We could not have also imagined then that our people as those in other countries would have to endure the loss of near and dear ones and suffer hardships brought about due to a health crisis.
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Govt allocates Rs 13,949 crore to Space Dept as India preps up for Gaganyaan launch
After a steep cut last year, the Department of Space has been allocated Rs 13,949 crore in this Budget, of which Rs 8,228 crore have been earmarked for capital expenditure. Rs 700 crore has been allocated for the New Space India Limited (NSIL), a newly formed public sector undertaking under the Department of Space. The New Space India Limited, a PSU under the Department of Space, will execute the PSLV-CS51 launch, carrying the Amazonia Satellite from Brazil, along with a few smaller Indian satellites, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her budget speech.
NEW DELHI: The country’s first unmanned space flight under the Gaganyaan programme before the final human spaceflight mission is scheduled to be launched in December this year, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced as part of the Budget on Monday. She also said that “2021 will be the year of Chandrayaan-3”, a successor to the Chandrayaan-2 moon landing mission launched in 2019. She also proposed to launch a ‘Deep Ocean Mission’ with a budget outlay of more than Rs 4,000 crore over five years.
“As part of the Gaganyaan mission activities, four Indian astronauts are being trained on Generic Space Flight aspects in Russia. The first unmanned launch is slated for December 2021,” the FM said in Parliament. The first unmanned flight was initially scheduled to be held in December last year but had to be postponed due to the pandemic. Two unmanned GSLV rockets each carrying a humanoid (a robot simulating human forms) will be tested before the human flight carryi