Finance Minister Arun Jaitley seems to be enamoured by the figure of Rs 100 crore. In an over two-hour long Budget speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, Jaitley announced 29 schemes each of which have been allotted Rs 100 crore.
Some of these schemes have the potential to change the lives of ordinary India but in the eyes of Jaitley they are just worth Rs 100 crore each while Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project of constructing a statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat has been granted Rs 200 core.
The following schemes have got Rs 100 crore in the Union Budget 2014-15:
Van Bandhu Kalyan Yojana
Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana
Start Up Village Entrepreneurship Programme
Setting up virtual classrooms as Communication Linked Interface for Cultivating Knowledge (CLICK) and online courses
Programme for promoting "Good Governance"
Scheme to support 600 new and existing Community Radio Stations
Metro Projects in Lucknow and Ahmedabad
Modernization of Madarsas
Agricultural Research Institutes in Assam and Jharkhand
Agri-Tech Infrastructure Fund
Soil health card programme
National Adaptation Fund
Kisan TV
National Industrial Corridor Authority
Preparatory work for Ultra-Modern Super Critical Coal Based Thermal Power Technology
Development of 1 MW Solar Parks on the banks of canals
War Memorial and War Museum for defence personnel
Technology Development Fund
National Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive (PRASAD)
Archaeological sites preservation
Detailed Project Reports on linking rivers
Development of Ghats and beautification of Riverfront
Sports University in Manipur
Training of sports women and men for Asian and Commonwealth Games
To transform employment exchanges into career centres
A Young Leaders Programme
National Centre for Himalayan Studies in Uttarakhand
Commercial organic farming
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