Finance

Budget Highlights 2010-11

26th February 2010

Rural Development :

•	Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: 40100 for providing 100 days of wage employment to each rural household opting for it.
•	Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana: 2984 for establishing micro-enterprises in rural areas through activity clusters and group approach. At least 50% of the Swarozgaries will be SCs/STs, 40% women and 3% disabled. This also includes Rs.100 crore for Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana, a Sub-Component of National Rural Livelihood Mission.
•	Rural Housing: 10000 for providing assistance to rural BPL households for construction of houses (and upgradation of Kutcha houses) under Indira Awaas Yojana.
•	Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana: 12000 for providing connectivity to eligible unconnected rural habitations through good all-weather roads.

Drinking Water Supply :

•	National Rural Drinking Water Programme: 9000 for National Rural Drinking Water Programme.
•	Rural Sanitation: 1580 for Total Sanitation Campaign.

Land Resources :

•	Integrated Watershed Management Programme: 2458 for Integrated Watershed Management Programme.
•	National Land Records Modernization Programme: 200 for Land Records Modernization.

Agriculture and Cooperation :

•	1062 for National Horticulture Mission.
•	1350 for National Food Security Mission.
•	1000 for Macro Management in Agriculture.
•	1000 for Micro Irrigation.
•	950 for National Agricultural Insurance Scheme.
•	500 for Integrated Oilseeds, Oil Palm, Pulses & Maize Development.

Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries :

•	444 for Veterinary Services and Animal Health.
•	163 for Cattle Development.
•	96 for a Special package for farming population in 31 suicide prone districts.

Agricultural Research and Education :

•	2006 for Agricultural Research and Education, including Rs.200 crore for Climate Resilient Agriculture Initiative.
•	294 for World Bank Aided National Agricultural Innovation Project.

Environment and Forests:

•	1232 for Ecology & Environment and National River Conservation, including Rs.500 crore for National Ganga River Basin Authority.
•	968 for Forestry & Wildlife and National Afforestation & Eco-Development.

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises:

•	223 for Credit Support Programme to provide Guarantee cover to banks for extending loans to Small/Tiny units without collateral.
•	906 for Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme.
•	336 for Quality of Technology Support Institution and Programmes.

Consumer Affairs : 112 for Consumer Awareness/Consumer Protection.

School Education And Literacy :

•	15000 for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
•	9440 for National Programme of Mid Day Meals in Schools.
•	1700 for Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan.
•	1385 for Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti.
•	1167 for Adult Education and Skill Development.

Higher Education :

•	4390 for University Grants Commission.
•	4706 for Technical Education.
•	900 for National Mission in Education through Information and Communication Technology.

Women and Child Development :

•	8700 for Integrated Child Development Services.
•	390 for Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana.
•	1000 for Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls.

Information Technology :

•	1030 for e-Governance programme.
•	700 for National Informatics Centre to improve infrastructure.
•	180 for Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) for undertaking R&D.

Telecommunications :

•	1500 for OFC based Network for Defence Services.
•	269 for C-DOT.
•	162 for Undersea Cabling between Mainland and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Health :

•	15440 for National Rural Health Mission.
•	5560 for Health Sector.

Ayush :

•	107 for development of Ayurveda system.
•	52 for development of Homeopathy system.
•	44 for development of Unani system.
•	22 for development of Yoga and Naturopathy system.
•	232 for National Rural Health Mission.

Planning : 1900 for Unique ID Authority of India.

Information and Broadcasting : 319 for Commonwealth Games.

Urban Development :

•	995 for Equity Investment towards Infrastructure development of ‘Mass Rapid Transit System’.
•	200 for development of Satellite Cities/Counter Magnet Cities.
•	177 for Commonwealth Games.

Highways :

•	700 for development of National Highways under Border Roads Organisation.
•	1750 for Special Accelerated Road Development Project in the North Eastern Region.
•	9472 for National Highway Authority of India.
•	230 for Inter-State and Economically Important Roads in different States and UTs.
•	4575 for Development of National Highways.

Power :

•	5500 for Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana.
•	3700 for Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme.

Textiles :

•	2400 for Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme.
•	400 for Integrated Textile Parks.
•	426 for Handlooms.
•	286 for Handicrafts.
•	320 for Sericulture.

Social Justice and Empowerment :

•	600 towards Special Central Assistance for Scheduled Castes Component Plan to benefit about 7.50 lakh beneficiaries.
•	1700 for Post Matric Scholarships for SC students to benefit about 44 lakh students.
•	350 for Post Matric Scholarship for OBC students to benefit about 30 lakh students.

Tribal Affairs : 558 for Post Matric Scholarships for Scheduled Tribes students.

Development of North Eastern Region :

•	60 for North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd.
•	68 for the Asian Development Bank assisted North East States Road Project.

Science and Technology :

•	570 for Multi-Disciplinary Research.
•	100 for National Mission on Nano-Science and Nano-Technology.
•	1335 as Assistance to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - National Laboratories.

Biotechnology :

•	457 for Research & Development.
•	343 for Autonomous R & D Institutions.
•	125 for I&M Sector Programmes.

Space :

•	500 for PSLV & GSLV.
•	262 for Navigational Satellite System.
•	150 for Manned Mission Initiatives/Human Space Flight Programme.
•	153 for Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark-III Development.
•	250 for Semi-cryogenic Engine Development.
•	100 for Indian Lunar Mission Chandrayan- 1&2.

Civil Aviation : 1200 for National Aviation Company of India Limited.

Earth Sciences :

•	402 for improving weather and monsoon forecast.
•	79 Marine Research and Technology Development.
•	45 for promotion of climate change studies.

Sports :

•	1455 for development of Infrastructure, preparation of teams for holding Commonwealth Games, 2010.
•	413 for Panchayat Yuva Krida aur Khel Abhiyan.

Culture :

•	121 for Archaeological Survey of India.
•	74 for activities in North-Eastern Region.

Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals : 213 for establishment of a Petrochemical Gas Cracker Project at Lepetkata, Dibrugarh (Assam).

Pharmaceuticals : 56 for establishment of 6 new National Institutes of Pharmaceuticals Education and Research.

Panchayati Raj :

•	50 for Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Yojana.
•	24 for Mission Mode Project on e-Panchayats.

Heavy Industry : 232 for setting up of state of art automotive testing, validation and R&D infrastructure facilities.

Fertilisers :

•	125.14 lakh tonnes of Nitrogenous fertiliser production targeted.
•	48.68 lakh tonnes of Phosphatic fertiliser production targeted.

Coal and Lignite:

•	572.37 million tonnes of domestic availability of Coal has been assessed.
•	24.14 million tonnes of lignite production targeted.

Steel :

•	15.45 million tonnes of saleable steel production by Steel Authority of India Ltd., and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd., targeted.
•	20 million tonnes of Iron Ore production by National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd., targeted.

Railways :

•	18000 Rolling stock wagons; 480 locos; 4621 coaches to be added.
•	3500 kilometers of track renewal; 1000 route kilometers of electrification; 800 kilometers of gauge conversion.
•	1000 kilometers of new lines to be added; 700 kilometers doubling of lines targeted.

Postal :

•	13420 Post Offices targeted for computerisation/ networking.
•	293 Computerisation of Administrative Offices.
•	150 Vehicles with GPS tracking facility to be provided.
•	500 Post Offices to be modernized under 'Project Arrow'.

New and Renewable Energy :

•	2972 MW Grid-Interactive Power Capacity addition targeted.
•	1500 remote villages/hamlets targeted for electricity/lighting facility through SPV/other RE systems and devices, including DRPS.

Source: indiabudget.nic.in