Jaitley and Rs. 100 crore

Arun Jaitley’s speech was longer than previous budget speech due to a long list of Rs. 100 crore projects. Following are that projects:

Here’s the complete list of projects:

– Rs 100 crore for Himalayan studies in Uttarakhand

– Rs 100 crore for training of athletes for Common Wealth Games (CWG) and Asian Games

– Rs 100 crore for ghat developments

– Rs 100 crore for national industrial corridor

– Rs 100 crore for National Adaption Fund for climate change

– Rs 100 crore for modernization of madrasas

– Rs 100 crore for virtual classrooms for cultivating online knowledge/education.

– Rs 100 crore for Beti bachao-beti padhao yojna, school curriculum on gender mainstreaming

– Rs 100 crores for setting up of metro railway projects in Ahmedabad and Lucknow under public private partnership mode-PPP

– Rs 100 crore allocated for War Memorial and war museum

– Rs 100 crore to link rivers

– Rs 100 crore to initiate scheme to provide a soil health card

– Rs 100 crore allocation for setting up agriculture university in Telangana and Haryana

– Rs 100 crore for Kisan Television to provide real time information on various farming and agriculture issues.

– Rs 100 crore agri-infra fund.

– Rs 100 crore for North East organic farming

– Rs 100 crore for Startup Village entrepreneurship for rural population

– Rs 100 crore for cleaner thermal power technology

– Rs 100 proposed for development of Technology Development Fund

– Rs 100 crore for the world famous Varanasi-Gaya-Saranath Buddhist tourist circuit

Author’s note: Rs. 100 crore push can’t make formidable change or bring paradigm shift in most of the areas listed above. So if you allocate Rs. 100 crore for War Memorial, it’s fine and it may work, but if you allocate Rs. 100 crore to link rivers or number of other agendas listed above, that may not work. Rs. 100 crore is very small push for that. It seems Rs. 100 crore announcements are made to add some gentle and progressive looking words to the budget speech. It feels in most of the areas listed above, the condition on ground will remain same when will sit to watch next year’s budget speech.