• Govt to set-up expert committee to advise on petro pricing products
• Rs 1 lakh crore projects for Infrastructure revival
• PSUs to remain under govt control
• Govt wants public shareholding in PSUs to go up
• 8.5% growth in recent past fueled by pvt sector investment
• Income-tax return forms to be made more user-friendly
• NREGA min wages set at Rs 100/day
• NREGA outlay increased by 144%
• Govt to move food security bill very soon
• 59% increase in allocation for Pradhanmantri Gram Sadak Yojna
• Allocation for Indira Awaas Yojana to be increased by 63%
• Food security to provide rice, wheat at Rs 3 a kg to poor
• Bharat Nirman outlay raised by 59%
• Indira Awaas Yojana outlay increased by 63%
• NHB refinance to rural housing sector to be raised
• PM’s Adarsh Gram Yojana starts with Rs 100 cr funding
• To launch national mission on female literacy
• Unorgainsed Social Security Bill passed by both houses of the Parliament
• Plan to cut female illiteracy by half in three yrs
• Govt aims to have social security for informal sector
• National Web Portal for employer and employee to be launched
• More than 46 lakh people received biometrics card
• To add handloom clusters in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu
• Right to Information Act been successful
• NREGA has been and outstanding success
• 46 lakh BPL families to come under new health insurance plan
• Unique ID cards in 12-18 months
• Govt proposes to launch housing for 1 lakh para military forces
• Paramilitary housing cost estimated at Rs 1,000 cr
• Certain Pension related benefits extended to war hounded
• Paramilitary housing project to cost Rs 1,000 cr
• Allocation for flagship Bharat Nirman progamme raised by 45%
• Rashtriya Mahila Kosh corpus to be raised to Rs 500 crore
• Govt to spend Rs 120 cr in FY10 in unique ID
• Allocation of Rs 2,113 cr for IIT
• National Mission for Female Literacy to be launched
• Govt to build 100,000 homes for paramilitary forces
• 50% of all rural women to be brought into self-help group programmes
• Allocation Commonwealth Games raised by more than 50% to Rs 3,472 crore
• Plan outlay increased by 74%
• Allocation for new Aligarh Muslim Univ campuses in Bengal, Kerala at Rs 25 cr
each
• Proposes Rs 500 cr for rehabilation of displaced persons of northern and eastern areas of
Sri Lanka
• Budget estimates: Rs 10,20,830 cr, Rs 6,95,600 cr non-planned and
planned Rs 3,29,100 cr
• Aila hurricane relief at Rs 1,000 cr
• Plan expenditure up 34% to Rs 3.75 lakh cr
• Interest payment seen exceeding Rs 2 lakh cr
• To spend Rs 1.42 lakh on defence
• Interest payment is a third of expenditure plan
• Budget estimates: Interest payment expected at Rs 2,25,511 cr
• Enhance budgetary support by Rs 40,000 cr