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Budget 2025-26 Health and Nutrition Announcements

3 February 20251 min read
GOVERNMENT SCHEMESBudget 2025-26Health andNutritionAnnouncements3 February 2025safalsetu.com

Why in the news

Budget 2025-26 treated investment in people, healthcare and medical innovation as a key development driver.

Key facts

  • Poshan 2.0 and Saksham Anganwadi: higher nutrition cost norms for 8 crore children, 1 crore pregnant and lactating women, and 20 lakh adolescent girls (aspirational districts, Northeast).
  • Medical seats: 10,000 next year, 75,000 in five years.
  • Heal in India: private partnership and easier visas for foreign patients.
  • Patient assistance programmes: 37 more medicines and 13 new programmes exempted.

Significance

  • Better cancer-care infrastructure and more doctors.
  • Lower treatment costs through duty relief.

Exam angle

  • Schemes: Poshan 2.0, Saksham Anganwadi, Heal in India.

Test yourself

1. How many day care cancer centres are to be set up in 2025-26 under the Budget announcement?

The Budget planned 200 centres in 2025-26, reaching all district hospitals in three years.

2. Budget 2025-26 targets how many medical college seats over five years?

10,000 seats next year and a 75,000-seat five-year target.

3. Under Budget 2025-26, how many new life-saving drugs were fully exempted from basic customs duty?

36 drugs got full BCD exemption; 6 others got 5% duty.

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