FM allocates Rs 35,000 crores for COVID-19 vaccine

The government on Monday proposed a budget outlay of Rs 2,23,846 crore for health and well being in 2021-2022, an increase of 137 per cent from the previous year, with Rs 35,000 crore earmarked for......

PMO sets up unit to monitor key govt projects

The Prime Minister's Office has become still more powerful by setting up a Delivery Monitoring Unit under it to fast-track effective delivery of the government's flagship programmes and iconic......

Time to speak up: What women want from elections

Ahead of the upcoming elections, political parties have started announcing incentives to benefit women, but what do women truly seek for genuine gender parity, asks Nivedita Mookerji.......

Can election manifestos show the way to Viksit Bharat?

Elections are not won or lost by expounding on such macro-economic matters. For the aam admi, what matters in manifestos are promises that will improve their quality of life, notes Vinayak......

In a major push to Ayushman Bharat govt allots Rs 61,398 cr for health sector

Ayushman Bharat aims at providing a cover of Rs 5 lakh per family annually and is aimed at benefitting more than 10 crore poor families across the country. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......

Big schemes get more money

Refraining from tinkering with tax and duty rates in the interim Budget, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday made a huge allocation of Rs 30,100 crore (Rs 301 billion) to government's......

Rs 16,000 crore allocation for NREGS

With the flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme set to be rolled out all over the country from April one, the Union Budget 2008-09 has made an allocation of Rs 16,000 crore for the......

Budgetary support raised by 19%

The gross budgetary support for 2006-07 has been raised 19 per cent to nearly Rs 171,000 crore (Rs 1710 billion) from Rs 143,497 crore (Rs 1434.97 billion) in the current fiscal. But this is lower......