Agriculture Accelerator Fundto be set-up to encourage agri-startups by young entrepreneurs in rural areas.

To make India a global hub for‘Shree Anna’, the Indian Institute of Millet Research, Hyderabad will be supported as the Centre of Excellence for sharing best practices, research and technologies at the international level.

20 lakh crore Agricultural credit targeted at animal husbandry, and Fisheries

Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Programwith an outlay of 2200 crore to be launched to boost availability of disease-free, quality planting material for high value horticultural crops.

157 new Nursing colleges to be established in co-location with the existing 157 medical colleges established since 2014.

Centre to recruit 38,800 teachers and support staff for the 740 Eklavya Model Residential Schools, serving 3.5 lakh tribal students over the next three years.

Union Budget 2023-34

The Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2023-24 in Parliament. The highlights of the Budget are as follows

Per capita income has more than doubled to 1.97 lakh in around nine years.

Indian economy has increased in size from being 10th to 5th largest in the world in the past nine years.

EPFO membership has more than doubled to 27 crore.

7,400 crore digital payments of 126 lakh crore has taken place through UPI in 2022.

11.7 crore household toilets constructed under Swachh Bharat Mission.

9.6 crore LPG connections provided under Ujjwala.

220 crore covid vaccination of 102 crore persons.

47.8 crore PM Jan Dhan bank accounts.

Insurance cover for 44.6 crore persons under PM Suraksha Bima and PM Jeevan Jyoti Yojana.

Cash transfer of 2.2 lakh crore to over 11.4 crore farmers under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi.

IMF approves $4.7 billion Bangladesh support package

The has signed off on a $4.7 billion support loan package for Bangladesh to help it cope with soaring energy and food costs that have sparked huge protests.

Bangladesh and other South Asian countries dependent on fossil fuel imports were hit hard by sharp cost-of-living increases followingRussia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Nationwide blackouts of up to 13 hours a day hit the electricity grid last year and the government extended food relief for households unable to afford rice and other staples.

Bangladesh plans to use the IMF loan to prop up its Foreign Exchange reserves, which have nosedived from $46 billion to $34 billion.

Aditya-L1 Mission

In the year 2022, ISRO is expected to launch the “Aditya-L1 mission” to investigate the sun.

Highlights:

The L1 Lagrange point will be the landing site for the Aditya-L1 mission. After AstroSat, this will be ISRO’s second space-based astronomy mission.

In 2015, AstroSat was launched.Aditya-L1 was originally known as Aditya 1 and was designed to only observe the solar corona.

Aditya L1, a solar probe, will be launched on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) XL carrying seven payloads or experiments.

Union budget 2022-23 By Nirmala Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman, the Union Finance Minister, presents the Union Budget 2022 for the fourth time.

Highlights:

Nirmala Sitharaman, the Union Finance Minister, presents the Union Budget 2022 for the fourth time.

She will give the fiscal year 2022-23 financial results and tax suggestions (April 2022 to March 2023).

As Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman departs the Finance Ministry to present the Budget in Parliament, a Made in India tablet has taken the place of the customary ‘Bahi Khata.’

V Anantha Nageswaran, India’s Chief Economic Advisor, released the Economic Survey 2021-22 on January 31, 2022.

The Indian economy is expected to develop at an annual rate of 8-8.5 percent in the fiscal year 2022-23, according to the government (FY23).

The Union Budget is a yearly financial report that estimates the government’s income and expenditures to propose future long-term Growth and development strategies.

The Annual Financial Statement refers to the year’s Union Budget, defined by Article 112 of the Indian Constitution (AFS).