Filing the Union budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley promised that over 1 crore families that are in poverty will be relieved. He further stated that.
- Importance will be given towards growth of villages
- Poverty will be marked an end
- On a daily basis, roads were laid for about 133 km length at all rural areas
- Rs 48,000 crore is allotted towards Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Rs 38,500 was allotted for the same last year.
- Allotment of Rs 13,000 crore towards Prime Minister’s New Housing Schemes
- Electricity to all villages before 1st May 2018
- Pure drinking water to all rural areas
- Rs 1,17,000 crore towards infrastructure development in rural areas while the same was Rs 87,765 crore last year
- Rs 1,87,223 towards agricultural development
- Allotment of Rs 500 crore to NABARD bank towards micro irrigation
- Rs 4500 crore towards Deen Dayal Yojana.
- Rs 1,84,000 crore towards women and children
- New AIIMS hospital at Gujarat and Jharkhand
- Interest rate slash down towards new house building scheme in rural areas
- Target to eradicate Tuberculosis in India within 2025
- Reduction in rates of medical equipment
- 1 crore houses for the poor and houseless