Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman presented the Union Budget for the year 2021-22 in the lower house of the parliament. The Health and Wellbeing have found sharp focus and central positioning in the Union Budget 2021-22 presented in Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They form the basis of Aatma Nirbhar Bharat. There is a steep increase of 137 per cent in the Budget outlay for Health and Wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Union Budget has announced launch of the Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban).<\/p>\n\n\n\n It aims at universal water supply in all 4,378 Urban Local Bodies with 2.86 crore household tap connections, as well as liquid waste management in 500 AMRUT cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be implemented over 5 years, with an outlay of Rs 2,87,000 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Swachch Bharat, Swasth Bharat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For further swachhta of urban India, the Budget has focused on complete faecal sludge management and waste water treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Urban Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 will be implemented with a total financial allocation of Rs 1,41,678 crore over a period of 5 years from 2021-2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clean Air<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n To tackle the burgeoning problem of air pollution, It is proposed to provide an amount of Rs 2,217 crore for 42 urban centres with a million-plus population in this budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scrapping Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A voluntary vehicle scrapping policy forms a crucial part of the Union Budget, to phase out old and unfit vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vehicles would undergo fitness tests in automated fitness centres \u2013 after 20 years in case of personal vehicles, and after 15 years in case of commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman presented the Union Budget for the year 2021-22 in the lower house of the parliament. The Health and Wellbeing have found sharp focus and central positioning in the Union Budget 2021-22 presented in Parliament. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 They form the basis of Aatma Nirbhar Bharat. There is a steep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":36076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1390],"tags":[1396],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-36075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2021","tag-union-budget-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36077,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36075\/revisions\/36077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36075"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=36075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}