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Union #Budget2021 explained in 15 charts

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Major Allocations | Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced higher capital expenditure for the FY 2021-22 and focused on providing a major boost to healthcare & infrastructure building

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Health spendings increased by 135%

Sitharaman proposed increasing healthcare spending to Rs 2,200 crore to help improve public health systems and fund a huge vaccination drive to immunise 1.3 billion people.

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Big boost for highway projects in poll-bound states

From Rs 1.03 lakh crore highway projects for Tamil Nadu to Rs 65,000 crore works for Kerala -- 4 poll-bound states found special mention in the budget speech of the finance minister

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Half of agriculture budget to be spent on PM-KISAN scheme

On MSP procurement, FM said the govt's payment on wheat procurement has increased to Rs 62,802 cr in 2019-20 & even better in 2020-21 from the level of Rs 33,874 cr in 2013-14

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No major increase in defence budget

There was no major increase in the overall defence budget, but India did spend an additional unbudgeted Rs 20,776 crore on emergency arms procurements in the current fiscal in wake of border clash with China

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