budget special
main page
| budget basics
|
budget glossary
|budget highlights
Prev Economic survey
|Prev Union Budget
| Prev Railway Budget
Click for Economic Survey 2010-11
Click for Railway Budget 2011-12
Click for UNION BUDGET 2011-12
Strengthening Inclusion
Indian Budget 2011-12-Full Text of Budget Speech
Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Minister of Finance- February 28, 2011
Innovations
100. To move beyond the formal R&D paradigm, a National Innovation Council under Shri Sam Pitroda has been set up to prepare a roadmap for innovations in India. The process of setting up State Innovation Councils in each State and Sectoral Innovation Councils aligned to Central Ministries is underway.
101. The Government has been providing special grants to recognise excellence in universities and academic institutions. In the course of 2011-12, I propose to provide:
• `50 crore each to upcoming centres of Aligarh Muslim University at Murshidabad in West Bengal and Malappuram in Kerala;
• `100 crore as one-time grant to the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University at Pookode, Kerala;
• `10 crore each for setting up Kolkata and Allahabad Centres of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha;
• `200 crore as one time grant to IIT, Kharagpur;
• `20 crore for Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu
• `20 crore for IIM, Kolkata, to set up its Financial Research and Trading Laboratory;
• `200 crore for Maulana Azad Education Foundation;
• `10 crore for Centre for Development Economics and Ratan Tata Library, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi; and
• `10 crore for Madras School of Economics.
Skill Development
102. I am happy to inform the House that National Skill Development Council (NSDC) is well on course to achieve its mandate of creation of 15 crore skilled workforce two years ahead of 2022, the stipulated target year. It has already sanctioned 26 projects with a total funding of `658 crore. These projects alone are expected to create more than 4 crore skilled workforce over the next ten years. In the current year, skill training has so far been provided to 20,000 persons. Of these, 75 per cent have found placements. I will provide an additional `500 crore to the National Skill Development Fund during the next year.
103. National celebrations of 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore will commence from May 7, 2011 in New Delhi. Important events will be held in several countries in Europe, America and Asia. A series of events are also proposed to be organized under the aegis of joint India-Bangladesh Celebrations Committee. An international award with prize money of `1 crore is being instituted for promoting values of Universal Brotherhood in the memory of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.
Health
104. For health, I propose to step up the plan allocations in 2011-12 by 20 per cent to `26,760 crore. The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana has emerged as an effective instrument for providing a basic health cover to poor and marginal workers. It is now being extended to MGNREGA beneficiaries, beedi workers and others. In 2011-12, I propose to further extend this scheme to cover unorganized sector workers in hazardous mining and associated industries like slate and slate pencil, dolomite, mica and asbestos etc.
Financial Inclusion
105. In my last budget speech I had advised Banks to provide banking facilities to habitations having a population of over 2000 by March, 2012. The Banks have identified about 73,000 such habitations for providing banking facilities using appropriate technologies. A multi-media campaign, “Swabhimaan”, has been launched to inform, educate and motivate people to open bank accounts. During this year, banks will cover 20,000 villages. Remaining will be covered during 2011-12.
Unorganised sector
106. I had announced a co-contributory pension scheme “Swavalamban” in the Budget 2010-11. This scheme has been welcomed by the workers in unorganised sector. Over 4 lakh applications have already been received. On the basis of the feedback received, I am relaxing the exit norms whereby a subscriber under Swavalamban will be allowed exit at the age of 50 years instead of 60 years, or a minimum tenure of 20 years, whichever is later. I also propose to extend the benefit of Government contribution from three to five years for all subscribers of Swavalamban who enroll during 2010-11 and 2011-12. An estimated 20 lakh beneficiaries will join the scheme by March 2012.
107. Under the on-going Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme for BPL beneficiaries, the eligibility for pension is proposed to be reduced from 65 years at present to 60 years. Further, for those who are 80 years and above, the pension amount is being raised from ` 200 at present to ` 500 per month.
GO TO PAGE 1 >> Click here
GO TO PAGE 3 >> Click here
MAIN PAGE OF INDIAN UNION BUDGET 2011-12 ... Click here
For Quick Budget Updates follow us on TWITTER.... http://twitter.com/banknet
For Indian Budget 2011-12 Highlights.... Click here
Advertise
| Book Store |
About us |
Contact us
| Terms of use | Disclaimer
© Banknet India |
All rights reserved worldwide.
Best viewed with IE 4.00 & above at a screen resolution of 800 x 600
or higher