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.
As many as 450 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns totalling more than Rs 4.28 lakh crore, according to a report by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Budget 2021 speech highlights: Full list of FM Sitharaman s key announcements
Union Budget 2021 highights: A new centrally sponsored scheme, PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana, will be launched with an outlay of about Rs 64,180 crore over six years
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FM Sitharaman s Budget 2021 speech highlights
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday delivered her third Budget speech in the Parliament. She stated that her Budget 2021 rests on six key pillars: Health and Wellbeing; Physical and Financial Capital, and Infrastructure; Inclusive Development for Aspirational India; Reinvigorating Human Capital; Innovation and R&D; and Minimum Government and Maximum Governance.
After that, she went on to announce key reforms that sought to address the path to revive the COVID-19 battered economy.
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Budget 2021: Who got what
India s ambitious Budget 2021 had something for everyone. But, infrastructure and healthcare turned out to be the biggest winners. The allocation for the defence sector too wasn t any lesser. In a host of announcements, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sought to pull out the country s economy from a creaking financial system, generate more employment opportunities, and ramp up healthcare by prioritizing vaccination for all. There were quite a few firsts during the presentation of the 2021-22 Union Budget in the Lok Sabha. For the first time, the budget went paperless and members were provided soft copies of the speech and documents. The 110-minute speech was her shortest.