India budget unveils Rs641.8b plan for healthcare

Dubai - Money will be spent on primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare.

India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented India’s 2021-22 budget in the parliament on Monday.

The budget unveiled Rs641.80 billion spending plan for healthcare over the next six years. The money will be spent on primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare, in addition to the National Health Mission. As per the plan, 17,000 rural and 11,000 urban health and wellness centres and several district-level integrated public health labs to be set up.

Declaring at the outset of her speech that the pandemic is the dawn of a new era, one in which India is poised to be a land of new hope, the finance minister recapped policies announced by the National Democratic Alliance government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi so far.