India’s health budget sees a 137 percent jump in 2021

The budget outlay for 2021-22 is ₹2,34,846 crore

FM Sitharaman said the health budget will focus on strengthening three areas

Preventive, curative, and well being

PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana

A new centrally sponsored scheme

PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana

To be launched with an outlay of ₹64,180 crore over the next six years

The new scheme will be in addition to the National Health Mission

It will develop capacities of primary, secondary and tertiary care health systems

Mission Poshan 2.0 has been created

It merges the Supplementary Nutrition Program and the Poshan Abhyan

Mission Poshan 2.0 will adopt an intensified strategy to improve nutritional outcomes…

...across 112 aspirational districts

Jal Jivan Urban scheme will be launched

It aims to provide universal water supply to 4,378 urban local bodies

Jal Jivan Urban scheme

The outlay for the scheme is ₹2,87,000 crore over the next five years

₹2,217 crore has been allocated to tackle air pollution

The outlay will be used to help urban centres will a population of more than one million

Health budget also includes…

A voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to reduce pollution and oil import bills

Personal vehicles older than 20 years and commercial vehicles older than 15 years

… will undergo tests and be phased out if they fail to meet the requirements