Union Budget 2017-18: THE POOR AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED

Union Budget 2017-18: THE POOR AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED

1. Under Maternity Benefit Scheme ` 6,000 each will be transferred directly to the bank accounts of pregnant women who undergo institutional delivery and vaccinate their children

2. Affordable housing to be given infrastructure status

National Housing Bank will refinance individual housing loans of about ` 20,000 crore in 2017-18

3. To create additional 5,000 Post Graduate seats per annum to ensure adequate availability of specialist doctors to strengthen Secondary and Tertiary levels of health care

4. Two new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences to be set up in Jharkhand and Gujarat

5. The allocation for Scheduled Castes has been increased by 35% compared to BE 2016-17. The allocation for Scheduled Tribes has been increased to ` 31,920 crores and for Minority Affairs to ` 4,195 crores