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Budgetary allocation for Health ministry increases by around 11%
Millennium Post Kolkata
|Kolkata 02 February 2025
MINISTRY GETS RS 99,858.56 CRORE IN UNION BUDGET
NEW DELHI: The Union Health Ministry has been allocated Rs 99,858.56 crore in the Budget 2025-2026, an around 11 percent hike over the Rs 89,974.12 crore in the budget (revised estimates) of 2024-2025 with the government announcing setting up daycare cancer centres at all district hospitals over the next three years.
Two hundred of these daycare cancer centres would be established in the 2025-26 fiscal itself.
Presenting the Budget for 2025-2026 on Saturday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said 10,000 seats will be added in medical colleges next year towards the goal of adding 75,000 seats in the next five years. Sitharaman said, "Our government has added almost 1.1 lakh undergraduate and post-graduate medical education seats in 10 years, an increase of 130 per cent."
This story is from the Kolkata 02 February 2025 edition of Millennium Post Kolkata.
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