{"id":84922,"date":"2020-02-03T16:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13490"},"modified":"2020-02-03T16:38:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:08:32","slug":"budget-2020-social-sector-push-with-enhanced-allocations-for-welfare-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/budget-2020-social-sector-push-with-enhanced-allocations-for-welfare-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2020: Social sector push with enhanced allocations for welfare schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Social Welfare: Key Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>14% increase in the budget allocation for ministry of social justice and empowerment and a 7.5% increase in that of tribal affairs ministry.<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Programmes that have seen the highest increase include pre matric scholarships for children of workers involved in manual scavenging (400%), fellowships for OBCs (71.4%) and overseas fellowships for OBCs (133%)<\/li><li>&nbsp;A national action plan for drug demand reduction with an allocation of Rs 260 crore has been introduced.<\/li><li>Enhanced allocation of about Rs 9500 crore for 2020-21 for senior citizens and Diviyan<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Women and Child<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&nbsp;35,600 crore rupees for nutrition-related programmes in 2020-21<\/li><li>Taskforce to be appointed to look into the issue of young girls entering motherhood.<\/li><li>An outlay of about Rs 28,600 crore for programs that were specific to women.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts: Social Welfare: Key Highlights 14% increase in the budget allocation for ministry of social justice and empowerment and a 7.5% increase in that of tribal affairs ministry. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Programmes that have seen the highest increase include pre matric scholarships for children of workers involved in manual scavenging (400%), fellowships for OBCs (71.4%) and overseas fellowships&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/budget-2020-social-sector-push-with-enhanced-allocations-for-welfare-schemes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Budget 2020: Social sector push with enhanced allocations for welfare schemes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2033,2032],"class_list":["post-84922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-budget-2020","tag-social-sector","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704900426},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}