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Experts and representatives of social sectors Thursday called on finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who chaired the customary pre-Budget consultation meeting, to further step up focus on health and education..
Some of them also called for raising the budgetary spending on these critical social sectors, said a person aware of the deliberations...
In the interim Budget for FY25 in February, the government had pegged the outlay for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at 90,659 crore, up marginally from the FY24 budget estimate of 89,155 crore..
Earlier this month, the Confederation of Indian Industry had also called for raising the overall public expenditure (involving both the centre and states) on education to 6% of gross domestic product by FY31 from 2.8% budgeted for FY23..
They include Girdhar Gyani, director general of the Association of Healthcare Providers of India; Arvinder J Singh of Ashoka University; Ajit Ranade, vice-chancellor at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics; Rukmini Banerji, chief executive at Pratham Education Foundation; Reddy Subrahmanyam, former higher education secretary; and Chetan Subramanian, professor at IIM-Bangalore...
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