Budget 2021 | Expenditure on MGNREGS and rural development falls, rises marginally for for education and social welfare
Vignesh Radhakrishnan Sumant Sen Naresh SingaraveluAllocation as a % of the total expenditure for higher education and school education recorded marginal increases for FY22
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Vignesh Radhakrishnan Sumant Sen Naresh Singaravelu Presenting the Union Budget for 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned that the outlay for “health and wellbeing” (which includes spending on water and sanitation) increased by 137% in FY22. However, the outlay on health alone was ₹74,602 crore in FY22, 9.5% lower than the revised estimates for FY2020-21.Apart from the health outlay, ₹35,000 crore was allocated for COVID-19 vaccination in FY2021-22. This will be sufficient to provide two doses of the cheapest available vaccine to
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Union Budget 2021 | PM-KISAN dominates agriculture outlay, procurement concerns remain
Vignesh Radhakrishnan Sumant Sen Naresh Singaravelu Rabi crops record significant increase in acreage