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  Health: - Health and Wellness centres Budget 2021 Speech - Paragraph 30 – “ A new centrally sponsored scheme, PM AtmaNirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana, will be launched with an outlay of about ` 64,180 crores over 6 years. This will develop capacities of primary, secondary, and tertiary care Health Systems, strengthen existing national institutions, and create new institutions, to cater to detection and cure of new and emerging diseases. This will be in addition to the National Health Mission. The main interventions under the scheme are: a. Support for 17,788 rural and 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centres” Budget Speech 2018 , Para 56,57 – “I am pleased to announce two major initiatives as part of ‘‘Ayushman Bharat’’ programme aimed at making path-breaking interventions to address health holistically, in primary, secondary and tertiary care system covering both prevention and health promotion. 57. The National Health Policy, 2017 has envisioned Health and Wellness Centres as ...

Rs 1 lakh crore Agri Infrastructure Fund ( AIF) Finance Minister Said on 15th May 2020 :-   Financing facility of Rs. 1,00,000 crore will be provided for funding Agriculture Infrastructure Projects at farm-gate & aggregation points (Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies, Farmers Producer Organisations, Agriculture entrepreneurs, Startups, etc.) AIF is newly declared fund but there is a one similar fund - Agri Market Infrastructure Fund   (AMIF). Let check it's record to predict that what may happen with the newly announced AIF. Budget 2018-19 Speech - Para 17 - We will develop and upgrade existing 22,000 rural haats into Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs). In these GrAMs, physical infrastructure will be strengthened using MGNREGA and other Government Schemes.  Budget 2018-19 Speech - Para 18 - An Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of `2000 crore will be set up for developing and upgrading agricultural marketing infrastructu...