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Budget 2008-2009 Highlights

Main highlights of Budget 2008-2009.

Rs 70,200 cr allocated for drinking water mission.

All knowledge bodies to be connected via broadband.

Remuneration of Anganvadi workers to be increased to Rs 1,500 pm.

Total plan spending allocated Rs 2lakh 40 thousand cr.

Health spending to increase by 15 %.

Secondary education Scheme Rs 4,554 crore.

Upgraded mid day meal scheme to help 2.5 cr children.

Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana for every worker under BPL category.

Rs 100 cr for setting up National Knowledge Network.

Age limit for Science scholarship raised.

Mid day meals extended to upper primary classes

16 central universities and 3 IITs will be set up.

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan gets Rs 13,100 crore

Rs 650 cr for model school programmers, 6000 new schools.

Health insurance of Rs 30,000 for BPL categories.

Rs 195 cr for ST development programmers.

Rs 164 cr for OBC development program.

At least 4 cr farmers to be benefited by debt waiver.

The waiver amounts to 4 % of total loans, worth Rs 60,000 cr and is to be completed by June 2008.

Waiver of loans for small farmers holding up to 1-2 hectares.

Uproar in the Lok Sabha over PC's proposal on farmers.

All loans for farmers due up to 31 Mar 2007, have been waived.

Rs 75 cr for mobile soil-testing labs in 260 districts.

Banks to disperse agricultural credit of Rs 2,80,000 cr.

Rs 16,202 cr for schemes with 30% women representation

Commercial banks advised to have 250 rural accounts every year.

Completion rate of Golden quadrilateral project is 98.3 pct.

Rs 12,970 cr allocated for National Highways.

Govt to provide Rs 303 cr as debt support to PSUs.

Loan waiver will discourage fresh lending.

Rescheduled agricultural loans are also eligible for waivers.

At least 4 cr farmers to be benefited by debt waiver.

The waiver amounts to 4% of total loans, is worth Rs 60,000 cr and is to be completed by June 2008.

Waiver of loans for small farmers holding up to 1-2 hectares.

 

 

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