Hits and misses

Highlights of the 2017 budget

AGRICULTURE 5.9% increase in budget over last year

`10 lakh crore target for agricultural credit in 2017-18 `9,000 crore to be spent on bringing 40 per cent of cropped area under Fasal Bima Yojana Scheme `40,000 crore for the Long Term Irrigation Fund under NABARD `1,900 crore to computerise and integrate 63,000 functional Primary Agriculture Credit societies under NABARD to ensure credit flow to small farmers `438.75 crore for e-NAM (National Agriculture Market) project. The number of e-NAMs to increase to 585 from 250

RURAL DEVELOPMENT 11.8% increase in budget over last year

10 million rural households to be brought out of poverty by 2019 50,000 Gram Panchayats to be poverty-free by 2019 `48,000 crore allocated to MGNREGA in 2017-18 1 million farm ponds to be completed by March 2017 under MGNREGA 100% rural electrification by 2018 60% sanitation coverage in rural India, which was 42% in Oct 2014

SOCIAL WELFARE 17% increase in budget over last year

`500 crore allocated to set up Mahila Shakti Kendra in Anganwadi Centres for women empowerment `6,000 each to be transferred to the bank accounts of pregnant women who undergo institutional delivery `31,920 crore allocated to STs

HEALTH 22.6% increase in budget over last year

Eliminate kala-azar and filariasis by 2017, leprosy by 2018, measles by 2020 and tuberculosis by 2025 Reduce Infant Mortality Rate from 39 per 1,000 births in 2014 to 28 per 1,000 births by 2019. Reduce Maternal Mortality Rate from 167 per 1,000 births in 2011-13 to 100 by 2020