The Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that government expected to spend Rs. 2,23,846 crore for Health and wellness Sectors i.e. more than 137% from last year health budget.
Health and Wellbeing is one of the major pillar out of the 6 Pillars of the Union Budget 2021-22.
3 Focus Areas for Health :
1. Preventive
2. Curative
3. Wellbeing
Key Points :
• Vaccine :
+ Budget 2021-22 allocate Rs. 35,000 crore for COVID-19 vaccine.
+ The Made-in-India Pneumococcal Vaccine to be rolled out across the country, from present 5 States - to save 50,000 child deaths annually.
• PM AtmaNirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana :
+ It is a new centrally sponsored scheme.
+ Allocate Rs. 64,180 crore over 6 years to improve primary, secondary and tertiary health systems.
+ National Institution for One Health.
+ To support Health and Wellness Centers - 17,778 rural and 11,024 Urban.
+ Establish 4 regional National Institutes for Virology
+ 15 Health Emergency Operations Centers & 2 mobile hospitals
+ Critical care hospital blocks in 602 districts and 12 central institutions.
+ Expansion of the Integrated Health Information Portal to all States/UTs to connect all public health labs.
+ 17 new Public Health Units and strengthening of 33 existing Public Health Units
+ Regional Research Platform for WHO South-East Asia Region
+ Establish 9 Bio-safety Level III laboratories.
• Mission Poshan 2.0 :
+ 2nd edition of Poshan to launched for nutrition.
+ To strengthen nutritional content, delivery, outreach, and outcome
+ Merging the Supplementary Nutritional Programme and the Poshan Abhiyan
+ Intensified strategy to be adopted to improve nutritional outcomes across 112 Aspirational Districts
• Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) :
+ It's part of Universal Coverage of Water Supply.
+ Budget 2021-22 allocate Rs. 2,87,000 crore over 5 years for Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban)
+ To provide 2.86 crore household tap connections
+ Universal water supply in all 4,378 Urban Local Bodies
+ Liquid Waste management in 500 AMRUT cities
• Swachh Bharat, Swasth Bharat :
+ Budget 2021-22 allocate Rs. 1,41,678 crore over 5 years for Urban Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0
+ To complete faecal sludge management and waste water treatment
+ Source segregation of garbage
+ To reduce Single-use plastic
+ To reduce in air pollution by effectively managing waste from construction-and-demolition activities
+ Bio-remediation of all legacy dump sites
• Clean Air :
+ The Budget 2021-22 allocate Rs. 2,227 crore to tackle air pollution, for 42 urban centres with a million-plus population.
• Scrapping Policy :
+ Voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and unfit vehicles
+ Fitness Tests : After 20 years in case of personal vehicles and
After 15 years in case of commercial vehicles.
Also Read : Economic Survey 2020-21 : BNI
Questions can asked in Prelims of UPSC, UPPSC or other civil service Examination :
1. The Percentage increase in budget 2021-22 against 2020-21 in Health Sector ?
a. Rs. 117%
b. Rs. 127%
c. Rs. 137%
d. Rs. 147%
✔️ c. Rs. 137%
2. Rs._____ for COVID-19 vaccine in Budget Expenditure (BE) 2021-22.
a. Rs. 15,000 crore
b. Rs. 25,000 crore
c. Rs. 35,000 crore
d. Rs. 45,000 crore
✔️ c. Rs. 35,000 crore
3. PM AtmaNirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana is an INCORRECT statement.
a. New Centrally Sponsored Scheme
b. New Central Sector Scheme
c. Additional to National Health Mission
d. Establish 4 regional National
✔️ b. New Central Sector Scheme
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