Budget Speech 2020 Live Updates: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has started presenting the second Union Budget of the Modi 2.0 government today. It is expected that the Modi government will announce some income tax relief for the salaried class in this Budget. Will the government be able to revive growth with Union Budget 2020?

Sitharaman: Shortage of qualified doctors, will attach med colleges to hospitals

Nirmala Sitharaman: There is a shortage of qualified medical doctors both general practitioners and specialists; it is proposed to attach a medical college to a district hospital in PPP mode; details of the scheme to be worked out soon.

Sitharaman: Medical devices tax will be used to set up hospitals

Nirmala Sitharaman: Proceeds from taxes on medical devices would be used to support setting up of hospitals. Viability gap funding for setting up hospitals in those districts with no empanelled hospitals under Ayushman Bharat.

Sitharaman: Rs 12,300 crore for Swachh Bharat Mission

Nirmala Sitharaman: Allocation of Rs 12,300 crores for Swachh Bharat Mission for year 2020-21.

Sitharaman: Agri credit target at Rs 15 lakh cr for FY21

Nirmala Sitharaman: Agri credit target set up at Rs 15 lakh cr for Financial Year 2021. Horticulture with 311 MT exceeds production of food grains.

Sitharaman announces Rs 2.83 lakh crore for agri sector

Nirmala Sitharaman: For sector comprising agriculture, allied activities, irrigation and rural development, an allocation of Rs 2.83 lakh crores has been made for 2020-21 

Indian Railways will set up Kisan Rail to move perishable goods: Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman: To build a seamless national cold supply chain for perishables, Indian Railways will set up Kisan Rail through PPP model so that perishable goods can be transported quickly. Krishi Udaan will be launched by MoCA on international and national routes.

Sitharaman: Budget 2020 is to boost the income of people

Nirmala Sitharaman: Budget 2020 is to boost the income of people and enhance their purchasing power.

Sitharaman: India uplifted 271 million people out of poverty

Nirmala Sitharaman: India uplifted 271 million people out of poverty. This Budget has been woven around around 3 prominent themes, aspirational India, economic development and caring society.

India is now 5th largest economy in world: Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman: India is now 5th largest economy in world. Central Govt's debt has reduced to 48.7% of GDP from 52.2% in March 2014.

Nirmala Sitharaman says Budget is for boosting income

Nirmala Sitharaman says Budget is for boosting income, purchasing power of people. During 2014-19, govt brought paradigm shift in governance.

Sitharaman: We have added 16 lakh new taxpayers

Nirmala Sitharaman: We have added 16 lakh new taxpayers to the system.

source: https://www.indiatoday.in/

Indian Government Schemes 2015,2016 – Indian govt yojana . Here We are providing you the List of all Schemes , programmes and Projects which are launched by Indian government .

The ministries of the Government of India have come up with various schemes from time to tym. These schemes could be either Central, state specific or joint collaboration between the Centre and the states. They are detailed below.

List of Schemes and Their Important highlights

Mid-Day Meal Scheme 

The Midday Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the government of India designed to improve the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide.[1] The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary and upper primary classes in government, government aided, local body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and alternate innovative education centres, Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and National Child Labour Project schools run by the ministry of labour.[2] Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is the largest such programme in the world.

Initiatives by the central government

The government of India initiated the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) on 15 August 1995.[3] The objective of the scheme is to help improve the effectiveness of primary education by improving the nutritional status of primary school children. Initially, the scheme was implemented in 2,408 blocks of the country to provide food to students in classes one through five of government, government-aided and local body run schools. By 1997–98, the scheme had been implemented across the country. Under this programme, a cooked mid day meal with 300 calories and 12 grams of protein is provided to all children enrolled in classes one to five. In October 2007, the scheme included students in upper primary classes of six to eight in 3,479 educationally backward blocks,[13] and the name was changed from National Programme for Nutrition Support to Primary Education to National Programme of Mid Day Meals in Schools.[14]
Though cooked food was to be provided, most states (apart from those already providing cooked food) chose to provide "dry rations" to students. "Dry rations" refers to the provision of uncooked 3 kg of wheat or rice to children with 80% attendance.

Mid Day Meal Guidelines

• MDM Rules - 2015 with JS DO Letter dt. 08-10-2015 
• Guidelines on food Safety and Hygiene for school level kitchens under Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Scheme
• Revised guidelines for restructuring of the composition of Joint Review Mission (JRM) (Dt.02-02-2015)

Entitlements

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The nutritional guidelines for the minimum amount of food and calorie content per child per day are:^[2]

Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana

The scheme is fundamentally a State Plan Scheme. This scheme looks to offer the States & Indian Territories independence to sketch up plans for augmented public venture in Agriculture through incorporating knowledge on local necessities, geographical/ weather conditions, obtainable natural assets/ technology & cropping model in their own districts for noteworthy boost of yield of Agriculture & its related sectors & ultimately maximize the profits of farmers in farming & its related divisions.

Eligibility

Funding

It was decided that ₹58.75 billion (US$870 million) would be released by the Central Government every year under the 11th Five Year Plan and ₹15 billion (US$220 million) would be allocated in 2007-08.During the first three years (2007–2010) of the implementation of the RKVY, an amount of ₹84,621 million (US$1.3 billion), which is roughly 33% of the total allocation under the RKVY of ₹250 billion (US$3.7 billion).
While presenting the 2011 Union Budget Of India, India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee stated that the allocation under the RKVY had been increased from the existing ₹67.55 billion (US$1.0 billion) in 2010-11 to ₹78.6 billion (US$1.2 billion) for the year 2011-12.

In an attempt to improve the agricultural productivity, the government of India has come up with a new scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY). According to news reports, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), which is chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, finalised the details of the scheme.
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the cabinet has “decided that in 5 years, INR 50,000 crore from the central budget would be utilised for the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana. States’ share will be over and above this”.

The money shall be spent entirely towards improving farm yields and productivity, he said. The spending target, under the scheme, for the current financial year is about INR 5300 crore. This is almost twice the corpus set aside for any agricultural irrigation scheme in earlier budgets. Over and above the central government’s allocation, states shall add their funds to the scheme.

If the scheme turns out to be a success, economists and rural managers believe that the crop production could witness a manifold growth.
Details of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana
The major objective of PMKSY is to achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at the field level, expand cultivable area under assured irrigation, improve on-farm water use efficiency to reduce wastage of water, enhance the adoption of precision-irrigation and other water saving technologies (More crop per drop), enhance recharge of aquifers and introduce sustainable water conservation practices by exploring the feasibility of reusing treated municipal waste water for peri-urban agriculture and attract greater private investment in precision irrigation system.

According to current estimates, out of the 142 million hectares of agricultural land in India, only about 45 per cent has any arrangement for artificial irrigation. The rest of the agricultural farm is dependent solely on rainfall for its water needs. A delay in rainfall or a failure spells disaster for the farmers and shortfall in crop is the subsequent worry faced by the people. The government of India estimates that by spending about INR 5300 crore this fiscal, an additional 6 lakh hectares of agricultural land can be brought under irrigation. Apart from this, 5 lakh hectares of land will also receive the benefits of drip irrigation as a result. Micro-irrigation projects (“Har Khet Ko Pani”) and end-to-end irrigation solutions will be the key focus of this scheme.

The scheme shall also assume responsibility for various irrigation projects that were poorly implemented by previous governments despite adequacy of funds. These projects shall be improved based on strict quality guidelines. About 1,300 watershed projects that have remained in limbo shall now be completed.
According to news reports, the Finance Minister said, “The major objective of the PMKSY is to achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at the field level, expand cultivable area under assured irrigation, improve on-farm water use efficiency to reduce wastage of water, enhance adoption of precision-irrigation and other water-saving technologies”.

Programme Structure

The planning and implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana has been decentralised and the states shall now draw district-level plans for its successful execution.
The long-term adherence to these District Irrigation Plans (DIP) and State Irrigation Plans (SIP) will be supervised by a National Steering Committee (NSC) with representation from the various ministries involved and shall be monitored by the Union Ministers. The Prime Minister himself shall chair the committee.
The implementation of the scheme shall be overseen by a National Executive Committee (NEC), which shall be chaired by the Vice-Chairman of the NITI Aayog.
PMKSY and Pro-farmer Schemes
The Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana is part of a group of pro-farmer measures that the NDA government endeavours to implement. Earlier, the Cabinet led by Modi agreed on various amendments to the Land Acquisition Act of 2013, which are likely to benefit those farmers whose lands are acquired by the central government for implementation of various projects. Apart from these, the NDA government has launched a number of social security schemes (pension, insurance schemes etc.) targeted at improving the lot of the poor masses in the country, with specific emphasis on the rural poor. Earlier this year, the government had launched the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana – a scheme to support organic farming endeavours.

Introduction:

With a view to redressing the situation, Government have launched the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana on 25th December, 2000 to provide all-weather access to unconnected habitations. The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is a 100% Centrally Sponsored Scheme. 50% of the Cess on High Speed Diesel (HSD) is earmarked for this Programme.

Programme Objectives

AIM

The aim was to provide roads to all villages

1. with a population of 1000 persons and above by 2003
2. with a population of 500 persons and above by 2007
3. in hill states, tribal and desert area villages with a population of 500 persons and above by 2003
4. in hill states, tribal and desert area villages with a population of 250 persons and above by 2007.

Management:

The PMGSY is managed by the National Rural Roads Development Agency (NRRDA) , headed by a Director-General. The following have been Directors-General of the NRRDA.

1. DR J. Sridhar Sharma (2000-2002)
2. Subrahmanyam Vijay Kumar (2002–05)
3. J. K Mohapatra (2005–09)
4. Dr P.K. Anand (2009-11)
5. Mr. Adarsh chauhan(2011- )

Objectives of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Ujjwala Yojana is aimed at providing 5 Crore LPG connections in the name of women in BPL (Below Poverty Line) households across the country. The government has set a target of 5 Crore LPG connections to be distributed to the BPL households across the country under the scheme. Some of the objectives of the scheme are

1. Empowering women and protecting their health.
2. Reducing the serious health hazards associated with cooking based on fossil fuel.
3. Reducing the number of deaths in India due to unclean cooking fuel.
4. Preventing young children from significant number of acute respiratory illnesses caused due to indoor air pollution by burning the fossil fuel.

How to Apply for Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

The eligible women candidates from BPL families can apply for the scheme by filling up the Ujjwala Yojana KYC application form (in prescribed format).

The interested candidates require to fill the 2 page application form and attach required documents along with the form. The basic details such as Name, Contact details, Jan Dhan / Bank account number, Aadhar card number etc are required to fill in the application form. The applicants also need to mention their requirement of cylinder type i.e. 14.2KG or 5KG.

KYC Application forms for Ujjwala Yojana can also be downloaded online and submitted to nearest LPG outlet along with required documents.

Eligibility for PM Ujjwala Yojana

The identification of eligible BPL families will be made on the basis of SECC-2011 data. However below is the basic eligibility criteria for the scheme.

• The applicant’s name should be in the list of SECC-2011 data.
• The applicant should be a women above the age of 18 years.
• The women applicant should belong to BPL (Below Poverty Line).
• The women applicant should have a saving bank account in any nationalized bank across the country.
• The applicant’s household should not already own a LPG connection in anyone’s name.

The detailed eligibility criteria of the Ujjwala Yojana is available here.

List of Required Documents for Ujjwala Yojana Application

Below is the list of mandatory documents to be attached along with the filled application form.

1. BPL Certificate Authorized by Panchayat Pradhan / Municipality Chairman
2. BPL Ration Card
3. One Photo ID (Aadhar Card or Voter ID Card)
4. One Recent Passport Size Photograph

View the complete list of documents for Ujjwala Yojana application which can be attached on the basis of requirement.

Quick Details About Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Pradhan MantriJeevanJyotiBimaYojana (PMJJBY) is a one year life insurance scheme, renewable from year to year, offering coverage for death due to any reason and is available to people in the age group of 18 to 50 years( life cover upto age 55) having a savings bank account who give their consent to join and enable auto-debit.

Eligibility:

Available to people in the age group of 18 to 50 and having a bank account. People who join the scheme before completing 50 years can, however, continue to have the risk of life cover up to the age of 55 years subject to payment of premium.

Premium: 

 Rs.330 per annum.  It will be auto-debited in one instalment.

Payment Mode:  

The payment of premium will be directly auto-debited by the bank from the subscribers account.

Risk Coverage: 

Rs.2 Lakh in case of death for any reason.

Terms of Risk Coverage: 

A person has to opt for the scheme every year.  He can also prefer to give a long-term option of continuing, in which case his account will be auto-debited every year by the bank.

Who will implement this Scheme?: 

The scheme will be offered by Life Insurance Corporation and all other life insurers who are willing to join the scheme and tie-up with banks for this purpose.

Application Form

The application form can be downloaded from http://www.jansuraksha.gov.in/FORMS-PMJJBY.aspx. The forms are available in different languages – English, Hindi, Gujarati, Bangla, Kannada, Odia, Marathi, Telugu and Tamil.

Click here - Consent-cum-Declaration Form

Click here - Claim Form

Government Contribution:

(i)       Various other Ministries can co-contribute premium for various categories of their beneficiaries out of their budget or out of Public Welfare Fund created in this budget out of unclaimed money.  This will be decided separately during the year.

(ii)     Common Publicity Expenditure will be borne by Government.

Objectives

Objectives are

1.Prevent gender biased sex selective elimination

2.Ensure survival & protection of the girl child

3.Ensure education of the girl child

Strategies 

Strategies are

1. Implement a sustained Social Mobilization and Communication Campaign to create equal value for the girl child & promote her education.
2. Place the issue of decline in CSR/SRB in public discourse, improvement of which would be an indicator for good governance.
3. Focus on Gender Critical Districts and Cities low on CSR for intensive & integrated action.
4. Mobilize & Train Panchayati Raj Institutions/Urban local bodies/ Grassroot workers as catalysts for social change, in partnership with local community/women’s/youth groups.
5. Ensure service delivery structures/schemes & programmes are sufficiently responsive to issues of gender and children’s rights.
6. Enable Inter-sectoral and inter-institutional convergence at District/Block/Grassroot levels.

Sukanya Samridhi Yojana It is a part of India’s ‘Beti Bachao- Beti Padhao’ initiative(Girl Child Prosperity Account) 

Support

The Beti Bachao campaign is supported by numerous medical organizations in India, including the Indian Medical Association.

Effectiveness

The campaign has reported some success in parts of India. In 2009, it was reported that in Gujarat, rates of female births increased from 802 to 882 for every 1000 male births. Beti Bachao activities were credited with this improvement.

MUDRA Vision

To be an integrated financial and support services provider par excellence benchmarked with global best practices and standards for the bottom of the pyramid universe for their comprehensive economic and social development.

MUDRA Mission

To create an inclusive, sustainable and value based entrepreneurial culture, in collaboration with our partner institutions in achieving economic success and financial security.

MUDRA Purpose

Our basic purpose is to attain development in an inclusive and sustainable manner by supporting and promoting partner institutions and creating an ecosystem of growth for micro enterprises sector.

Advantage MUDRA: Formalizing the Informal

1. Apex Refinancer
2. MUDRA Architecture Indigenously Conceived for Indian context
3. Inclusion of Last Mile Financiers - a game changing idea
4. Help expand Access to finance for micro enterprises
5. Lower Cost of Finance
6. Credit plus Approach
7. Mass Entrepreneurship Development and Growth
8. Employment Generation, Higher GDP Growth

MUDRA Strategic Focus

Product – Innovative

Pricing – Lower than Prevailing

Processes – Efficient

Specialisation – Micro

Scale – India Unincorporated

Sustainability – of Stakeholders

Technology – The Game Changer

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