Budget 2025 for Social Services
What's the wishlist for Social Services from the upcoming full Budget for 2025-2026. The Budget will be tabled on February 1 and is likely to focus on boosting consumption and capex. On Financial Express Read More.., we offer you a detailed list of expectation and announcements for Social Services on its dedicated page Who Got What. Navigate through all the declarations at a glance from the current and past Union Budgets on this page.
Budget 2024-26 Announcements for Social Services
Social Services
- Empowering all eligible people with equal opportunities for education and health
- National Livelihood Missions, Stand-up India to be stepped up
- Self Help groups, women entrepreneurs, street vendors to get support for economic activites
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Budget Announcements for Social Services in FY2024
Social Services
- Youth to be trained and given courses on the needs of the industry, especially new age courses.
- Scheme to supply free food grain to all Antyodaya and priority households for the next one year, under PMGKAY
Budget Announcements for Social Services in FY2023
Social Services
- 'Har Ghar, Nal Se Jal': Aim to cover 3.8 crore households in 2022-23.
- PM Awas Yojana: Targeting completion of 80 lakh houses in 2022-23.
- PM-DevINE: Initiative to fund infrastructure and social development in the Northeast based on regional needs.
- Aspirational Blocks Programme: Focused on the development of underdeveloped blocks in aspirational districts.
- Vibrant Villages Programme: Aims to develop villages on the Northern Border that have been left out of development gains.
- Digital Banking by Post Offices: Plan to bring 100% of post offices onto the core banking system.
- Digital Payments: Scheduled Commercial Banks to establish 75 Digital Banking Units in 75 districts.
Budget Announcements for Social Services in FY2022
Social Services
- One Nation One Ration Card scheme enables beneficiaries to claim rations nationwide, chiefly benefiting migrant workers.
- Application of minimum wages and ESIC coverage to all worker categories.
- Reduced employer compliance burden via single registration, licensing, and online returns.
- Provision of free food grain supply for migrants.
- Extension of social security benefits to gig and platform workers.
Budget Announcements for Social Services in FY2021
Social Services
- Proposed allocation of Rs. 85,000 crore for the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes in 2020-21.
- Allocation of Rs. 53,700 crore for the development and welfare of Scheduled Tribes.
Budget Announcements for Social Services in FY2020
Social Services
- 'Pradhan Mantri Shram – Yogi Maandhan' is introduced to offer pensionary benefits to a minimum of 10 crore unorganized sector laborers and workers.
- Budget Estimates for 2019 – 20 allocate Rs. 60,000 crores for MGNREGA and Rs. 19,000 crores for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).
- Goal to provide electricity connections to all households by March 2019.
- A Welfare Development Board will be created under the Ministry of Social Justice to aid De – notified, Nomadic, and Semi – Nomadic communities. Also, a NITI Aayog committee will identify and classify unrecognized communities.
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