What we learned from Budget 2014: 100 crore is Jaitley's favourite number

Presenting his first union budget, was Arun Jaitley a little partial to the number Rs 100 crore? The Finance Minister made a range of allocations as part of the budget and we decided to check just how many schemes the government will be spending the magic number of Rs 100 crore on.

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Here’s the complete list of projects:

- Rs 100 crore for Himalayan studies in Uttarakhand

- Rs 100 crore for training of athletes for Common Wealth Games (CWG) and Asian Games

- Rs 100 crore for ghat developments

- Rs 100 crore for national industrial corridor

- Rs 100 crore for National Adaption Fund for climate change

- Rs 100 crore for modernization of madrasas

- Rs100 crore for virtual classrooms for cultivating online knowledge/education.

- Rs 100 crore for Beti bachao-beti padhao yojna, school curriculum on gender mainstreaming

- Rs 100 crores for setting up of metro railway projects in Ahmedabad and Lucknow under public private partnership mode-PPP

- Rs 100 crore allocated for War Memorial and war museum

- Rs 100 crore to link rivers

- Rs 100 crore to initiate scheme to provide a soil health card

- Rs 100 crore allocation for setting up agriculture university in Telangana and Haryana

- Rs 100 crore for Kisan Television to provide real time information on various farming and agriculture issues.

- Rs 100 crore agri-infra fund.

- Rs 100 crore for North East organic farming

- Rs 100 crore for Startup Village entrepreneurship for rural population

- Rs 100 crore for cleaner thermal power technology

- Rs 100 proposed for development of Technology Development Fund

- Rs 100 crore for the world famous Varanasi-Gaya-Saranath Buddhist tourist circuit