{"id":987525140,"date":"2021-02-02T03:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/despite-pandemic-health-budget-sees-little-real-increase-water-and-sanitation-outlays-included-in-the-health-budget\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:34:15","slug":"despite-pandemic-health-budget-sees-little-real-increase-water-and-sanitation-outlays-included-in-the-health-budget","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/despite-pandemic-health-budget-sees-little-real-increase-water-and-sanitation-outlays-included-in-the-health-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Pandemic, Health Budget Sees Little Real Increase &#8211; Water and sanitation outlays included in the health budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiabudget.gov.in\/doc\/Budget_Speech.pdf\"><u>announced<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;a new healthcare scheme&#8211;the Pradhan Mantri Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana&#8211;with a Rs 64,180-crore ($8.7 billion) outlay. The Centre&#8217;s allocation to the health ministry for 2020-21 was Rs 67,112 crore ($9.18 billion). This new scheme appears to make a 100% increase in the entire health allocation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, Sitharaman also said that this would be operationalised over six years. And the detailed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiabudget.gov.in\/doc\/eb\/allsbe.pdf\"><u>budget document<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;does not have any mention of this scheme for 2021-22. So it is unclear how much of this money would make its way into any health spending this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The government also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PIB_India\/status\/1356124902160392193\"><u>announced<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;an unprecedented outlay for healthcare, Rs 2,23,846 crore ($30.6 billion), which the finance minister said is an increase of 137% over the 2020-21 budget.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, although conventionally the outlay on healthcare has referred to the outlay to the health ministry alone, the government this time has presented the healthcare budget in a more intersectional manner: It has combined many existing heads in some way related to healthcare even if not managed by the health ministry. In other words, no new budget-heads of money have been created for healthcare, but already existing ones have been added up, which gives this increased figure of 137%&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Read full article here:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">https:\/\/www.indiaspend.com\/budget\/despite-pandemic-health-budget-sees-little-real-increase-721259<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman&nbsp;announced&nbsp;a new healthcare scheme&#8211;the Pradhan Mantri Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana&#8211;with a Rs 64,180-crore ($8.7 billion) outlay. The Centre&#8217;s allocation to the health ministry for 2020-21 was Rs 67,112 crore ($9.18 billion). This new scheme appears to make a 100% increase in the entire health allocation. However, Sitharaman also said that this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,128,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987525140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987525140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987525140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987525140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}