India’s health budget sees a 137 percent jump in 2021
Feb 1, 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