Budget 2016: ₹9,000 cr for Swachh Bharat Scheme
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today while presenting the Union Budget allocated ₹9,000 crore for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Further, he announced a ₹2,000 crore fund to meet the initial costs of providing LPG cylinders to 1.5 crore households below the poverty line. Also, a new health protection scheme to provide health cover of upto ₹1 lakh per family will be launched.