Budget boosts funds for tribals, Dalits: FM
01 Feb 2018
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New Delhi: The allocation of social sector funds for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) has been raised to Rs56,619 crore and Rs 39,135 crore respectively, in the Union Budget 2018-19 presented by finance minister Arun Jaitley.
"I propose to earmark allocation of Rs56,619 crore for SCs and Rs39,135 crore for STs in the BE of 2018-19," Jaitley said.
Jaitley said that allocation to SCs was for 279 programmes for the community and the allocation to STs was for 305 programmes for the section.
In 2017-18, the RE (revised estimate) of earmarked allocation for SCs was Rs 52,719 crore and Rs 32,508 for STs, Jaitley said.
