Rs. 20000 crore
package to deal with health, social and economic
challenges posed by second wave of Covid -19.
All proposals of the previous
Budget for the year remain.
Health
Emergency Package
- Rs. 2800
crore to fight health emergency
- Rs. 8900
crore for financial assistance to those who
lost their livelihoods
- Rs. 8300
crore for economic revival through
sanctioning of loans and interest subsidy
- Rs. 1500
crore for free supply of vaccines and
ancillary equipment
- Rs. 559
crore for grants to LSGs for strengthening
of health care centre
- Rs. 636.5
crore for isolation wards of ten beds each
in all Community Health Centres and taluk,
district and general hospitals
- Rs. 18.75
crore for conversions of autoclave rooms in
taluk, district and general hospitals into
Central Sterile Supply Department
- Rs. 50
crore for isolation blocks in Trivandrum and
Kozhikode Medical Colleges
- Rs. 25
crore for building pediatric ICU wards in
selected hospitals
- Rs. 25
lakhs for preparing project report for a
liquid medical oxygen plant
- Rs. 50
lakhs for detailed project report for
setting up a Centre for Disease Control
- Rs. 10
crore each to Institute of Advanced Virology
for research in vaccine development and
regional test laboratories, universities and
other research institutions for making
medical equipment.
Package for Economic
Rejuvenation
- Rs. 2000
crore to primary cooperative banks for
agriculture infrastructure development,
- Rs. 1000
crore for Loan scheme for Labour Enterprises
- Rs. 1000
crore for Loans to Kudumbasree
Neighbourhood Groups
- Rs. 100
crore for interest subvention in the above
schemes.
- Interest
subsidies for various other loan schemes.
- Loans to
small industries and tourism sectors through
KFC to increased by 20 per cent.
- Rs. 100
crore for venture capital fund
- Rs. 50
crore for tourism circuits including Malabar
Literary Circuit and Biodiversity Circuit.
- Rs. 10
crore for pilot project for hydrogen-powered
vehicles
- Rs. 30
crore for revival of tourism sector hit by
Covid-19
Other
Proposals
- Rs. 2
crore for initial expenses for developing a
mechanism for cultivation, procurement,
storage and finding market for new fruit
varieties.
- Rs. 50
crore set apart for paying entire
arrears of rubber subsidy.
- Rs. 50
crore is earmarked for the first phase of
project for flood mitigation with estimated
outlay of Rs. 500 crore.
- Rs. 10
crore for reduction of extreme poverty
- Rs. 2
crore each for memorials to K. R. Gouriamma
and R. Balakrishna Pillai.
- Rs. 50
Lakh is earmarked for establishing
‘Mar Chrysostom Chair’ in Mahatma Gandhi
University.
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No new Tax
proposals
- Government to
formulate comprehensive plan for revenue
- enhancement and
expenditure reduction
- Additional
Expenditure announced: (-) Rs.
1715.10 crore
- Additional
resource mobilisation: Nil
- Cumulative
Deficit at the end of the year: (-) Rs.
1866.79 crore.
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