The key highlights of the Union Budget 2021-22 are as follows:

6 pillars of the Union Budget 2021-22:

1. Health and Wellbeing
2. Physical & Financial Capital, and Infrastructure
3. Inclusive Development for Aspirational India
4. Reinvigorating Human Capital
5. Innovation and R&D
6. Minimum Government and Maximum Governance

1. Health and Wellbeing

• Rs. 2,23,846 crore outlay for Health and Wellbeing in BE 2021-22 as against Rs. 94,452 crore in BE 2020-21 – an increase of 137%
• Focus on strengthening three areas: Preventive, Curative, and Wellbeing
• Steps being taken for improving health and wellbeing:

5. Vaccines

• Rs. 35,000 crore for COVID-19 vaccine in BE 2021-22
• The Made-in-India Pneumococcal Vaccine to be rolled out across the country, from present 5 states – to avert 50,000 child deaths annually

5. Health Systems

• Rs. 64,180 crore outlay over 6 years for PM AatmaNirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana – a new centrally sponsored scheme to be launched, in addition to NHM
• Main interventions under PM AatmaNirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana:

• National Institution for One Health
• 17,788 rural and 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centers
• 4 regional National Institutes for Virology
• 15 Health Emergency Operation Centers and 2 mobile hospitals
• Integrated public health labs in all districts and 3382 block public health units in 11 states
• Critical care hospital blocks in 602 districts and 12 central institutions
• Strengthening of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), its 5 regional branches and 20 metropolitan health surveillance units
• Expansion of the Integrated Health Information Portal to all States/UTs to connect all public health labs
• 17 new Public Health Units and strengthening of 33 existing Public Health Units
• Regional Research Platform for WHO South-East Asia Region
• 9 Bio-Safety Level III laboratories

5. Nutrition

• Mission Poshan 2.0 to be launched:

• To strengthen nutritional content, delivery, outreach, and outcome
• Merging the Supplementary Nutrition Programme and the Poshan Abhiyan
• Intensified strategy to be adopted to improve nutritional outcomes across 112 Aspirational Districts

5. Universal Coverage of Water Supply

• Rs. 2,87,000 crore over 5 years for Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) – to be launched with an aim to provide:

• 2.86 crore household tap connections
• Universal water supply in all 4,378 Urban Local Bodies
• Liquid waste management in 500 AMRUT cities

5. Swachch Bharat, Swasth Bharat

• Rs. 1,41,678 crore over 5 years for Urban Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0
• Main interventions under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) 2.0:

• Complete faecal sludge management and waste water treatment
• Source segregation of garbage
• Reduction in single-use plastic
• Reduction in air pollution by effectively managing waste from construction-and-demolition activities
• Bio-remediation of all legacy dump sites

5. Clean Air

• Rs. 2,217 crore to tackle air pollution, for 42 urban centers with a million-plus population

5. Scrapping Policy

• Voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and unfit vehicles
• Fitness tests in automated fitness centres:

• After 20 years in case of personal vehicles
• After 15 years in case of commercial vehicles

2. Physical and Financial Capital and Infrastructure

5. Production Linked Incentive scheme (PLI)

• Rs. 1.97 lakh crore in next 5 years for PLI schemes in 13 Sectors
• To create and nurture manufacturing global champions for an AatmaNirbhar Bharat
• To help manufacturing companies become an integral part of global supply chains, possess core competence and cutting-edge technology
• To bring scale and size in key sectors
• To provide jobs to the youth

5. Textiles

• Mega Investment Textiles Parks (MITRA) scheme, in addition to PLI:

• 7 Textile Parks to be established over 3 years

• Textile industry to become globally competitive, attract large investments and boost employment generation & exports

5. Infrastructure

• National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) expanded to 7,400 projects:

• Around 217 projects worth Rs. 1.10 lakh crore completed

• Measures in three thrust areas to increase funding for NIP:

1. Creation of  institutional structures
2. Big thrust on monetizing assets
3. Enhancing the share of capital expenditure

1. Creation of  institutional structures: Infrastructure Financing

• Rs. 20,000 crore to set up and capitalise a Development Financial Institution(DFI) – to act as a provider, enabler and catalyst for infrastructure financing
• Rs. 5 lakh crore lending portfolio to be created under the proposed DFI in 3 years
• Debt Financing by Foreign Portfolio Investors to be enabled by amending InvITs’ and REITs’ legislations

2. Big thrust on monetizing assets

• National Monetization Pipeline to be launched
• Important asset monetization measures:

1. 5 operational toll roads worth Rs. 5,000 crore being transferred to the NHAIInvIT
2. Transmission assets worth Rs. 7,000 crore to be transferred to the PGCILInvIT
3. Dedicated Freight Corridor assets to be monetized by Railways, for operations and maintenance, after commissioning
4. Next lot of Airports to be monetized for operations and management concession
5. Other core infrastructure assets to be rolled out under the Asset Monetization Programme:
   • Oil and Gas Pipelines of GAIL, IOCL and HPCL
   • AAI Airports in Tier II and III cities
   • Other Railway Infrastructure Assets
   • Warehousing Assets of CPSEs such as Central Warehousing Corporation and NAFED
   • Sports Stadiums

3. Sharp Increase in Capital Budget

• Rs. 5.54 lakh crore capital expenditure in BE 2021-22 – sharp increase of 34.5% over Rs. 4.12 lakh crore allocated in BE 2020-21 :

• Over Rs. 2 lakh crore to States and Autonomous Bodies for their Capital Expenditure.
• Over Rs. 44,000 crore for the Department of Economic Affairs to provide for projects/programmes/departments exhibiting good progress on Capital Expenditure

5. Roads and Highways Infrastructure

• Rs. 1,18,101 lakh crore, highest ever outlay, for Ministry of Road Transport and Highways – of which Rs. 1,08,230 crore is for capital
• Under the Rs. 5.35 lakh crore Bharatmala Pariyojana, more than 13,000 km length of roads worth Rs. 3.3 lakh crore awarded for construction:

• 3,800 km have already been constructed
• Another 8,500 km to be awarded for construction by March 2022
• Additional 11,000 km of national highway corridors to be completed by March 2022

• Economic corridors being planned:

• Rs. 1.03 lakh crore outlay for 3,500 km of NHs in Tamil Nadu
• Rs. 65,000 crore investment for 1,100 km of NHs in Kerala
• Rs. 25,000 crore for 675 km of NHs in West Bengal
• Over Rs. 34,000 crore to be allocated for 1300 km of NHs to be undertaken in next 3 years in Assam, in addition to Rs. 19,000 crore works of NHs currently in progress in the State

• Flagship Corridors/Expressways:

• Delhi-Mumbai Expressway – Remaining 260 km to be awarded before 31.3.2021
• Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway – 278 km to be initiated in the current FY; construction to begin in 2021-22
• Kanpur-Lucknow Expressway – 63 km expressway providing an alternate route to NH 27 to be initiated in 2021-22
• Delhi-Dehradun economic corridor – 210 km to be initiated in the current FY; construction to begin in 2021-22
• Raipur-Vishakhapatnam – 464 km passing through Chhattisgarh, Odisha and North Andhra Pradesh, to be awarded in the current year; construction to start in 2021-22
• Chennai-Salem corridor – 277 km expressway to be awarded and construction to start in 2021-22
• Amritsar-Jamnagar – Construction to commence in 2021-22
• Delhi-Katra – Construction will commence in 2021-22

• Advanced Traffic management system in all new 4 and 6-lane highways:

• Speed radars
• Variable message signboards
• GPS enabled recovery vans will be installed

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Alka Singh, Principal – Blue Bells Model School.

“I congratulate Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for reaching to the core of elements related to the education sector in India in the historic budget. The government’s decision to bring in a new educational policy at par with the global system will change the trend of outflow of students to foreign countries. It will make Indian students more capable and competitive globally. The FM’s decision to promote greater autonomy and focus on better academic outcomes in higher education will boost the morale of institutions and encourage them to go above and beyond to deliver a better result. Government’s decision to launch’ Study in India’s programme will attract foreign students in higher education resulting in an increase in our national income. ”

Paritosh Dey, Co-Founder & CEO, Benling India Energy and Technology Pvt Ltd. “Govt’s mission of bringing an Electric Vehicle (EV) revolution to India is truly path-breaking and will surely provide the much-needed impetus to the industry. In line with its road map for EVs in the next four years, the budget offers upfront incentives on the purchase of EVs. The move goes hand in hand with other measures to promote the sector, such as proposed reduction in the goods and services tax (GST) rate for EVs to 5 per cent from 12 per cent and batteries from 18 per cent to 12 per cent. We welcome the Government’s vision to protect the environment and lead energy revolution with EVs in the coming years.”

Dr. Omkar Rai, Director General, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) 

“As government has taken so many remarkable reforms with this budget for boosting the economy, we are on the path of achieving a sustainable GDP growth rate of 8% in becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2024-25. Government focus on aggregating the services of key sectors such as infrastructure, energy, developing model for public-private partnership intending towards lot of collaborations by way of leveraging emerging technologies, FDI, ease of doing business, focus on R&D and digital economy shall definitely change the functioning of industry verticals and increase their productivity, which, in turn, will help in creating massive job opportunities and ensure all-inclusive growth of the countrymen. This development will eventually bring less-privileged people into the mainstream of the society.” Dr. Omkar Rai, Director General, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)

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