Social Sector 2016

Budget 2016: Here's why Arun Jaitley's Budget is pro-poor with an ambitious fiscal math

Fully in-line with our expectations, the Government opted for a ‘pro-poor’ budget for FY17.

Budget 2016: Jaitley ready to push for a law to give legal status to Aadhaar

Budget 2016: Govt to give five crore LPG connections on concessional rate

Pradhan said we have been providing LPG connections to the BPL families on concessional rates from the fund collected through CSR initiatives.

Budget 2016: We have taken several steps to bring a change in lives of farmers, says Modi

This Budget is pro-village, pro-poor, pro-farmer. The main focus is to bringing about qualitative change in the country," Modi said

Budget 2016: FM proposes setting up of agency to finance higher education

Government on Monday announced creation of a Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) with an initial capital base of Rs 1,000 crore which will leverage funds from the market and work to create infrastructure in India's top institutions like the IITs.

Budget 2016: Centre to provide Rs 1 lakh health cover per family

The Centre will launch a new health protection scheme under which a cover up to Rs one lakh per family will be provided bedsides opening around 3,000 medical stores across the country to provide quality medicines at affordable prices.

Budget 2016: A pro-poor budget; adherence to fiscal deficit a big positive, say experts

Here is what experts ranging from macroeconomic, infrastructure to banking sector have to say on Budget 2016

Budget 2016: UPA redux? FM Jaitley hikes MGNREGA allocation hiked by Rs 3,800 crore

The NDA government, which had earlier raised doubts over the efficacy of MGNREGA, today increased its allocation by over Rs 3,800 crore in 2016-17, with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley laying down the road map for rural development in the Union Budget

Budget 2016: Govt targets 6 crore rural households for pushing digital literacy, says Jaitley

Of the 16.8 crore rural households, as many as 12 crore households do not have computers and are unlikely to have digitally literate people, said Jaitley.

Aadhaar to get statutory status, reveals Jaitley in Budget 2016 speech: Find out why

The statutory status will provide a legal foundation to Aadhaar for expanding its use for a range of developmental purposes, revealed Jaitley.