Key Highlight of Union Budget 2021-2022.

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PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana Scheme( Health System)

In the scheme of ₹ 64,180 crores over 6 years. This will develop capacities of primary, secondary, and tertiary care Health Systems, strengthen existing national institutions and create new institutions, to cater to the detection and cure of new and emerging diseases.

  • Support for 17,788 rural and 11024 urban Health and wellness centers.
  • Setting up integrated public health lab in all district and 3,382 blocks and health unit in 11 states.
  • Establishing critical care hospital blocks in 602 districts and 12 central institutions.
  • Strengthening of the National center for District control.
  • Expansion of the Integrated Health information portal to all-state / UTs to connect all public health labs.
  • operalitionlisation of 17 new health units and strengthening of 33 existing PHUs at point of Entry.
  • Setting up of 15 Health Emergency Operation Centers and 2 mobile hospital.
  • Setting up of a National Institution for one health a regional research platform for WHO south east asia region, 9 Bio safety level 3 laboratories and 4 Regional National institution for virology.

Building World Class Urban Infrastructure

A New Scheme of ₹ 18,000 crores is to be launched to support the augmentation of public bus transport service.

Two new technologies- Metro Lite and Metro Neo to be deployed to provide metro rail systems at a much lesser cost within Tier-2 cities and peripheral areas of Tries-1 cities.

Central counterpart funding for the upcoming phase of Metro Railways in Kochi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Nashik, and Nagpur.

Nutrition and Universal Coverage of Water Supply

Merging the Supplementary Nutrition Programme and the Poshan
Abhiyan and launch the Mission Poshan 2.0. We shall adopt an intensified
strategy to improve nutritional outcomes across 112 Aspirational Districts.

The Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban), will be launched. It aims at a universal
water supply in all 4,378 Urban Local Bodies with 2.86 crores household tap
connections, as well as liquid waste management in 500 AMRUT cities. It
will be implemented over 5 years, with an outlay of ₹ 2,87,000 crores.

AtmaNirbhar Bharat – Production Linked Incentive scheme (PLI)

For a USD 5 trillion economy, our manufacturing sector has to grow
in double digits on a sustained basis.

PLI schemes to create manufacturing global champions for an AtmaNirbhar Bharat have been announced for 13 sectors. For this, the government has committed nearly `1.97 lakh crores, over 5 years starting FY 2021-22. This initiative will help bring scale and size in key sectors, create and nurture global champions and provide jobs to our youth.

Mega Investment Textiles Parks scheme (MITRA) (Textile)

MITRA will be launched in addition to the PLI scheme. This will create a world-class infrastructure with plug-and-play facilities to enable create global champions in exports. 7 Textile Parks will be established over 3 years.

The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP)

The NIP was launched with 6835 projects; the project pipeline has now expanded to 7,400 projects. Around 217 projects worth `1.10 lakh crores under some key infrastructure Ministries have been completed.

  • In this Budget, concrete steps to do this, in three ways:
    1. the institutional structures
    2. monetizing assets
    3. capital expenditure

1.Infrastructure financing – Development Financial Institution (DFI)

In the budget a sum of ₹20,000 crores to capitalize DFI. The ambition is to have a lending portfolio of at least `5 lakh crores for this DFI in three years.

Debt Financing of InVITs and REITs by Foreign Portfolio Investors will
be enabled by making suitable amendments in the relevant legislations. This will further ease access of finance to InVITS and REITs thus augmenting funds for infrastructure and real estate sectors.

2. Asset Monetization

National Highways Authority of India and PGCIL each have
sponsored one InvIT that will attract international and domestic
institutional investors.

An enterprise value of ₹ 5000 crores is being transformed to the NHAI InvIT. Similarly, transmission assets of a value of ₹7,000 crores will
be transferred to the PGCIL InvIT.

Railways will monetize Dedicated Freight Corridor assets for operations and maintenance, after commissioning. Airports will be monetized for operations and management concession.

  • core infrastructure assets that will be rolled out under theAsset Monetization Programme. they are.
    1. NHAI Operational Toll Roads
    2. Transmission Assets of PGCIL
    3. Oil and Gas Pipelines of GAIL, IOCL, and HPCL
    4. AAI Airports in Tier II and III cities,
    5. Other Railway Infrastructure Assets
    6. Warehousing Assets of CPSEs
    7. Sports Stadiums.

3.capital expenditure

In increasing capital expenditure have provided ₹5. 54 lakh crores which is 34.5% more than the BE of 2020-2021. The sum of more than ₹ 44,000 crores in the budget head of the department of economic affairs to be provided for projects/programs/departments that show good progress on Capital Expenditure and are in need of further funds.

Over and above this expenditure, the budget has been assigned to providing more than ₹2 lakh crores to States and Autonomous Bodies for their Capital
Expenditure.

Roads and Highways Infrastructure

More than 13,000 km length of roads, at a cost of ₹ 3.3 lakh crores has already been awarded under the ₹ 5.35 lakh crores Bharatmala
Pariyojana project
of which 3,800 km have been constructed.

In March 2022, we would be awarding another 8,500 km and complete an additional 11,000 km of national highway corridors.

Railway Infrastructure

Indian Railways have prepared a National Rail Plan for India – 2030.
Bringing down the logistic costs for our industry is at the core of our strategy to enable ‘Make in India’. It is expected that Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) and Eastern DFC will be commissioned by June 2022.

Beautifully designed Vista Dome LHB coach on tourist routes to give a better travel experience to passengers. Providing a record sum of ₹1,10,055 crores, for Railways of which ₹ 1,07,100 crores is for capital expenditure.

A total of 702 km of the conventional metro is operational and another
1,016 km of metro and RRTS is under construction in 27 cities. Two new
technologies i.e., ‘MetroLite’ and ‘MetroNeo’ will be deployed to provide
metro rail systems at much lesser cost with the same experience, convenience
and safety in Tier-2 cities and peripheral areas of Tier-1 cities.

Urban Infrastructure

Public transport in urban areas through expansion of metro rail network and augmentation of city bus service. A new scheme will be launched at a cost of ₹ 18,000 crores to support the augmentation of public bus transport services.

The scheme will facilitate the deployment of innovative PPP models to enable private sector players to finance, acquire, operate and maintain over 20,000 buses.

Power Infrastructure

A revamped reforms-based result-linked power distribution sector scheme will be launched with an outlay of `3,05,984 crores over 5 years.

the scheme will provide assistance to DISCOMS for Infrastructure creation including pre-paid smart metering and feeder separation, up-gradation of systems, etc., tied to financial improvements.

Proposed to launch a Hydrogen Energy Mission in 2021-22 for generating hydrogen from green power sources.

Ports, Shipping, Waterways

Major Ports will manage their operation service with help of private partners and 7 projects worth more than ₹ 2,000 crores will be offered
by the Major Ports on Public-Private Partnership mode in FY21-22.

The recycling capacity of around 4.5 Million Light Displacement Tone (LDT) will be doubled by 2024. This is expected to generate an additional 1.5 lakh jobs for our youth.

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