Booster Dose
The highest-ever healthcare allocation in a budget will provide the much-needed boost to the ailing economy, and pave the way for a robust, holistic public healthcare infrastructure to tackle future pandemics, according to industry experts.
The Budget outlay for ‘Health and Wellbeing’ for 2021/22 came in at a record ₹2,23,846 crore, a 137 per cent increase over this year’s Budget estimate of ₹94,452 crore. It is about 1.6 per cent of India’s projected Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at ₹134.4 lakh crore for 2020/21. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who earmarked ₹35,000 crore for Coronavirus vaccination as a short-term overall reset to correct the ailing economy, also announced a two-pronged strategy after listening to experts in the sector.
₹2,23,846 CRORE Budget outlay’ ₹
