Joint public and Private Medical research to be encouraged via select Icmr labs for encouraging collaborative research and innovation.
New Programme to promote research in Pharmaceuticals to be launched.
Rs. 10 lakh crore capital , a steep increase of 33% for third year in a row, to enhance Growth potential and job creation, crowd-in private investments, and provide a cushion against global headwinds.
Computerisation of 63,000 https://exam.pscnotes.com/primary-agricultural-credit-societies”>Primary Agricultural credit Societies (PACS) with an Investment of 2,516 crore initiated.
Massive decentralised storage capacity to be set up to help farmers store their produce and realize remunerative prices through sale at appropriate times.
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
The maximum deposit limit for Senior Citizen Scheme to be enhanced from Rs 15 lakh to Rs 30 lakh.
Targeted Fiscal Deficit to be below 4.5% by 2025-26.
Revamped credit guarantee scheme for MSMEs to take effect from 1st April 2023 through infusion of Rs 9,000 crore in the corpus. This scheme would enable additional collateral-free guaranteed credit of Rs 2 lakh crore and also reduce the cost of the credit by about 1 per cent.
100 labs to be setup for 5G Services based application development to realize a new range of opportunities, business models, and EMPLOYMENT potential.
Capital outlay of Rs. 2.40 lakh crore has been provided for the Railways, which is the highest ever outlay and about nine times the outlay made in 2013-14.
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.
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.
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.