Budget 2018: Govt may sidestep demand for boost to maternity benefit scheme
Requests from
activists and market analysts for a bring up in the spending portion for the
administration's maternity advantage program have neglected to cut ice with the
Center.
The Ministry of
Women and Child Development has not looked for any expansion for the Pradhan
Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), which guarantees Rs 6,000 to pregnant and
lactating moms for the introduction of their first kid, in its list of things
to get to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for UnionBudget 2018, an authority
said.
The service has
requested Rs 25 billion for the program, the same as a year ago.
An underlying
measure of Rs 27 billion was declared for the plan amid Union Budget 2017 yet
it was later overhauled to Rs 25 billion.
Around 60 top
financial specialists of the nation kept in touch with Jaitley in December a
year ago, calling attention to that the measure of Rs 27 billion put aside by
the Center was 33% of what is required under National Food Security Act (NFSA),
2013, which entitles every pregnant lady and lactating moms to at any rate Rs
6,000, and not simply moms of first-borns.
It is dependably learnt that NITI Aayog had contradicted the move to
limit advantages to just moms of first-borns yet the Prime Minister's Office
adhered to its weapons in light of the cost factor. .Budget 2018 Live

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