What has Union Budget done for the poor and underprivileged?
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday proposed a series of moves for the poor, including 'Mission Antyodaya', which will bring 1 crore households and 50,000 Gram Panchayats out of poverty. The government also proposed that affordable housing be given infrastructure status. Jaitley further introduced an action plan to eliminate leprosy by 2018, and tuberculosis by 2025, among others.