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TopicBudget 2021

Topic: Budget 2021

Total allocation for health ministry up only 7%, no increase in budget for Ayushman Bharat

Allocation for health ministry stands at Rs 73,931.77 cr , up from Rs 69,000 cr last year.  AYUSH ministry budget stands at Rs 2,970 cr, up from last year’s Rs 2,122 cr.

Defence capital budget sees 19% jump, Finance Commission calls for non-lapsable fund

The 15th Finance Commission has recommended a Rs 2.38 lakh crore non-lapsable fund for modernisation in 2021-26. But the overall defence budget in FY22 is up only 1.5%.

Govt announces voluntary policy to phase out vehicles older than 15 years after fitness test

Presenting Budget 2021, Sitharaman said that personal vehicles would undergo fitness test after 20 years while commercial vehicles would require it after completion of 15 years.

Lokpal gets Rs 40 crore in Budget 2021 to meet establishment, construction costs

The Lokpal was given Rs 74.7 crore for the ongoing fiscal, which ends in March. This has now been revised to Rs 29.67 crore for 2020-21.

Budget puts roads in focus in poll-bound states, Bengal & Assam tea workers get welfare push

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s party BJP is hoping to win West Bengal for the first time and retain Assam in assembly polls later this year.

Coming up — a ‘bad bank’ that will manage India’s record levels of soured debt

Shares of Indian lenders surged with the main banking barometer climbing as much as 6.5% after the Budget announcement of the stressed asset management company.

‘Ruler is one who creates wealth’ — FM Nirmala Sitharaman quotes poet Thiruvalluvar again

The Tamil poet and philosopher also used to feature prominently in the budget speeches of previous finance minister P. Chidambaram.

Committed to farmer welfare, says govt, cites ‘assured’ MSP at 1.5 times production cost

In her Budget speech Nirmala Sitharaman said the procurement of crops like paddy, wheat, pulses and cotton has jumped manifold in the last six years.

Govt to borrow about Rs 12 lakh crore in 2021-22, says Nirmala Sitharaman

Presenting the Union Budget, Sitharaman said expenditure for the next fiscal year has been pegged at Rs 34.83 lakh crore, which includes Rs 5.54 lakh crore of capital spending.

India set for first-ever digital Census, govt allocates Rs 3,726 crore for exercise

While presenting the Union Budget for 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the govt is also working on a national language translation initiative.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.