Children’s share in 2022 Union Budget plummets to 11-year low:

Children’s share in 2022 Union Budget plummets to 11-year low:

Topic: Government schemes

In news:

Children in the country received the lowest share of allocation in the Budget in 11 years, according to an analysis by the NGO, HAQ-Centre for Child Rights.

About:

• The total allocation for children in Union Budget 2022-23 is ₹92,736.5 crore, against an allocation of ₹85,712.56 crore in the last Budget.
• This is an increase of 8.19% in absolute terms, but it is not proportionate to the increase in the total expenditure in the Budget.
• The share of the Budget for children is a meagre 2.35% of the Budget for the next fiscal, which is a reduction of 0.11 percentage points from this fiscal. This is the lowest share children have received in the last 11 years.
• The allocation for child health has decreased by 08%. It has dropped from ₹3,727.57 crore in 2021-2022 to ₹3,501.11 crore for the next fiscal.
• One of the most important child health schemes, the NRHM-RCH Flexi Pool, has a reduced allocation of 8.22% at ₹3,174.57 crore in Budget 2022-23.
• As far as child development programmes are concerned, they have seen a drop of 10.97% in allocation for the next fiscal at ₹17,826.03 crore.

Mission Vatsalya:

• Mission Vatsalya or VatsalyaMaatriAmritKosh was launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
• It is a scheme to promote breastfeeding and thereby reduce infant mortality.
• ‘Vatsalya – MaatriAmritKosh’, a National Human Milk Bank and Lactation Counselling Centre has been established at the Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), Delhi.
• It has been established in collaboration with the Norwegian government, Oslo University and Norway India Partnership Initiative (NIPI).
• Recently, the Ministry of Women and Child Development classified all of its major schemes under 3 umbrella schemes: Mission Poshan 2.0, Mission Vatsalya and Mission Shakti.

PoshanAbhyan 2.0:https://optimizeias.com/poshan-abhiyan-2-0/