New Delhi:The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has trimmed down the number of schemes in the Budget 2021-22 from the existing 31 schemes to 19.
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, R. Subrahmanyam said on Thursday that this would lead to greater focus the core issues.
According to the ministry, a total of 1.82 lakh DNT, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic communities would be benefited under the scheme which will provide financial assistance for health insurance, coaching of good quality, livelihoods initiative and construction of houses for them.
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, R. Subrahmanyam speaking on Budget "In this budget, there has been a major restructuring of the schemes. There has been a complete overhaul of schemes looking at two important aspects - there should be the synergy between the implementing schemes and the schemes which require higher allocation should get a higher allocation and the schemes which are not good to be used, they must be scrapped," said R. Subrahmanyam, secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
"These are the issues which have gone into in proposing a major restructuring from 31 schemes to 19 schemes, but in terms of allocation there has been a major increase," he added.
Speaking about the reason for decreasing the schemes, the secretary said, the numbers have been reduced due to clubbing and synergy, for example, there were two schemes for one work, which have been now clubbed to one.
"So, the number of schemes have been reduced but the quantum of allocation for each of those components have increased as compare to last year. After looking at the field level implementations issues, we thought how to improve the things, that's why brought changes in it," added R. Subrahmanyam.
The outlay for annual budget 2021-22 of Department of Social Justice and Empowerment is Rs 10,517.62 crore as against the outlay (Rs 8,207.56 crore) approved for the revised budget plane 2020-21. The allocation for welfare of scheduled castes for all ministries has been increased to Rs 12,6259.20 crore in 2021-22 from Rs 83,256.62 crore in 2020-21.
The Ministry on Thursday said that post-matric scholarship for SCs is totally revamped with recent Cabinet approval and it would benefit 63 lakh SC students with a budgetary provision of Rs 3,5129 crore for 6 six years till 2025-26.
Among the 19 schemes, the Centre has proposed a new scheme- Pradhan Mantri Welfare scheme for DNTs for economic empowerment of DNT/NT/SNTs (SEED), with a budgetary allocation of Rs 50 crore.
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