What Women Received From Budget 2021: Gender Budget Rises 6.8% What Women Received From Budget 2021: Gender Budget Rises 6.8% The allocation for Pro-Women Schemes - those with at least 30 per cent allocation for women - has risen from Rs 1,14,893 crore to Rs 1,28,065 crore - an increase of 11.46 per cent
Allocation for Women Specific Schemes, with at 100 per cent allocation for women, has seen a decline
The Gender Budget has risen by a mere 6.8 per cent in the 2021 Union Budget - Rs 1,53,326 crore from Rs 1,43,461.72 crore in the 2020-21 Budget Estimates. However, the allocation for Women Specific Schemes - those with at 100 per cent allocation for women - has fallen from Rs 28,568.32 crore to 25,260.95 crore, a decline of about 13 per cent. Nevertheless, the allocation for Pro-Women Schemes - those with at least 30 per cent allocation for women - has risen from Rs 1,14,893 crore to Rs 1,28,065 crore - an increase of 11.46 per cent.
Economic Survey 2021: Significant improvement in access to housing for lowest-income group
Since 2014-15, construction of approximately 1.94 crore rural houses have been completed, out of which 1.22 crore houses have been constructed under the revamped scheme of PMAY-Gramin
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Economic Survey 2021’s Housing Index states that the improvement in access to housing has been disproportionately greater for the lowest income group when compared to the highest income group, thereby enhancing equity in access to housing, one of the ‘bare necessities’ such as water, sanitation, electricity and clean cooking fuel.
To measure the progress in the delivery of “the bare necessities”, the Survey develops a composite index called the Bare Necessities Index (BNI).
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the residential property market during the April-June period last year but sales have improved in affordable homes segment since July onwards, reflecting economic recovery in the real estate sector, according to the Economic Survey. The National Housing Bank s (NHB) Housing Price Indices (HPIs) are a broad measure of movement of residential property prices observed within a geographic boundary. The NHB-RESIDEX captures two housing price indices HPI@ Assessment Prices and HPI@ Market Prices - Under Construction Properties based on the data available for 50 cities with quarterly updation. The housing price index HPI @ Assessment Prices is based on valuation data collected from primary lending institutions, while HPI @ Market Prices for under construction properties primary and secondary data is collected through market survey.
Economic Survey 2021 | Government schemes can help India achieve Sustainable Development Goals by 2030
The Economic Survey 2020-21 also called for increased cohesion between the central and state governments, to achieve the targeted goals through effective implementation of the welfare programmes.
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Government welfare schemes can help India achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of reducing poverty, improving access to drinking water, sanitation and housing by 2030, said the
Seventeen SDGs, including elimination of poverty and hunger, universal access to drinkable water, sanitation, and healthcare, among others, were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015. The member nations were directed to attempt achieving them by 2030.
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January 29, 2021 17:14 IST
During the quarter July to September 2020, transactions for HPI@Assessment Prices have increased by around 150 % on Q-o-Q basis
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The Economic Survey highlighted that the access to housing has improved in all states, with some exception, helped by schemes like the PMAY.
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During the quarter July to September 2020, transactions for HPI@Assessment Prices have increased by around 150 % on Q-o-Q basis
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the residential property market during the April-June period last year but sales have improved in affordable homes segment since July onwards, reflecting economic recovery in the real estate sector, according to the Economic Survey.