Budget 2021: Gearing up for an Atmanirbhar education system
Budget 2021: Gearing up for an Atmanirbhar education system
Education is the foundation of the economy and the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has rightly focused on effective implementation of National Education Policy (NEP), Research & Development and upskilling.
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Budget 2021: Gearing up for an Atmanirbhar education system (Photo: PTI)
HIGHLIGHTS
All these educational reforms in Budget 2021 will no doubt bring about a deeper transformational shift and help accomplish the objectives of an inclusive and Atmanirbhar education system.
The initiatives announced in the Budget will help streamline the education scenario.
India s first post-Covid-19 Budget 2021 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was momentous in more ways than one. It was the first one to be digitally presented on a tablet, paving the way for several announcements in the way of digitization across sectors.
1. 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. The main interventions under the scheme are:
Hon’ble Speaker,
I present the Budget for the year 2021-2022.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
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.