Budget Highlights

Refined oil
Bidis
Sunglasses
Unbranded diesel
Wrist watches, pocket watches
Unbranded Petrol
Olive oil
Cigarette lighter
Branded Diesel
Video games
Branded petrol
TV sets
Hike in pay for President, V-P and governors
Mumbai rail network to get Rs 11,000 crore
Rs 40K standard deduction against expenses
No change in income tax slabs
Corporate tax cut for MSMEs
Toothpaste
Fiscal deficit for 2018-19 seen at 3.3% of GDP
Defence outlay increased by 5.84%.
Digital payment at toll booths soon
Cashew
Allocation for Digital India doubled
Cut, polished gems
UDAN scheme to connect 56 unserved airports
Mobile phones
Govt proposes to set up 5 lakh WiFi hot spots
Silk fabrics
Govt to allocate Rs 7,140 crore for textiles sector
Rs 17,000 crore for Bengaluru Metro
WiFi in all railway stations, trains
Footwear
Women to contribute only 8% PF in first 3 yrs
Pan Masala
18 more in IITs to come up
'Modicare' health scheme unveiled
Imitation jewellery
Rs 1 lakh crore in 4 years to boost R&D
Education to go digital
Loans to women self-help groups up to Rs 75,000
Truck and radial typres
Special team to address Delhi air pollution
8 crore BPL women to get free gas connection
Smart watches/wearable devices
Bricks, tiles
Operation Green with Rs 500 crore allocation
Beauty products
Agricultural corpus of worth Rs 2000 crore
Kisan credit cards for livestock farmers
Orange juice
Shaving products
Lamps and lighting fitting
Accessories of motor vehicles
Exports to grow by 17% in 2017-18
Food processing allocation doubled to Rs 1,500 cr
Perfume
Cranberry juice
Total 2018-19 expenditure seen at Rs 24.42 tn
Crop MSP to be 1.5 times production cost

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Budget 2018: What the Finance Minister Allocated for Health Sector

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a healthcare scheme that he said will be the "world's largest government funded healthcare programme". Ten crore families will get 5 lakh per year for their families to cover secondary and tertiary hospital expenses.

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Updated:February 1, 2018, 12:12 PM IST

Budget 2018: What the Finance Minister Allocated for Health Sector

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New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday announced major allocations to the health sector. Here are some of the key highlights from the FM's speech:

1. Only a Swastha Bharat can be Smriddha Bharat. Demographic dividend realization impossible without proper healthcare.

2. Health and wellness centres to bring healthcare closer and more accessible to people.

3. Announcing National Health Policy 2017 with a Rs 1200 crore allocation.

4. Rashtriya Samaj Beema Yojana: Healthcare protection to a new aspirational level. We are now launching a new national health protection scheme.

5. The scheme will be the world's largest government funded healthcare program. 10 crore families will get 5 lakh per year for their families to cover secondary and tertiary hospital expenses.

6. Announcing Rs 600 crore corpus to set up to help TB patients.

7. This will build a new India in 2022 and enhance productivity and will also generate lakhs of jobs for women. We are progressing towards Universal Health Coverage.

8. PM Jeevan Beema Yojana has benefitted more than 2 crore families.