In last year’s Budget, the finance minister announced pillars on which her proposals would rest. These were creation of physical and financial capital, speedy infrastructure development, attention to health and wellbeing, reinvigorating innovation and R&D, improving on human capital, and minimum government and maximum governance. To achieve the budget objectives, the government boldly increased the budgetary outlay by 1% to …
The next challenge is how to leverage the new infrastructure to transform Kerala’s economic base. Thus, for example, KIIFB finances the K-fone project to provide assured broadband internet connectivity to all institutions and households as well as electricity projects to overhaul the transmission and distribution lines. Their completion will create the preconditions for Kerala to reap employment opportunities that are …
Hon’ble Speaker, I present the Budget for the year 2021-2022. Setting up integrated public health labs in all districts and 3382 block public health units in 11 states; c. Establishing critical care hospital blocks in 602 districts and 12 central institutions; d. Strengthening of the National Centre for Disease Control, its 5 regional branches and 20 metropolitan health surveillance units; …
Farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are peeved at being blamed for Delhi’s smog. “We have been burning crop residue for the past 50 years now,” said a leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union from Haryana, who does not want to be named. The Centre launched a scheme, “Promotion of Agricultural Mechanization for In-Situ Management of Crop Residue in …
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