{"id":8514,"date":"2019-12-24T03:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2019-12-24T03:50:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:20:54","slug":"shri-anurag-thakur-holds-pre-budget-consultation-with-representatives-from-health-education-and-rural-development-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=8514","title":{"rendered":"Shri Anurag Thakur holds Pre-Budget Consultation with representatives from Health, Education and Rural Development Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Shri Anurag Thakur holds Pre-Budget Consultation with representatives from Health, Education and Rural Development Sectors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Union Minister of State for Finance &amp; Corporate Affairs ,Shri Anurag Thakur \u00a0held \u00a010<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and final \u00a0Pre-Budget Consultation meeting with the leading representatives from Health, Education and Rural Development Sectors here today in connection with the forthcoming General Budget 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p>The main areas of discussion by the representatives in the aforesaid meeting was related to improving efficiency in delivery of health services; devising innovative ways to reach primary health care facilities for marginalised sections; improving learning outcomes at primary level while also making secondary and higher level education accessible and affordable; reforms related to pension and social protections especially for the weaker sections; focus of Government on public investment in social sector; gender equality with bottom\u2019s up methodology; ways to\u00a0 boost economic and social\u00a0 infrastructure of rural sector and ways to eradicate unemployment and poverty through development of agriculture and allied sector as well as non-farm sector.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the Union Minister of State for Finance &amp; Corporate Affairs ,Shri Anurag Thakur \u00a0the said aforesaid meeting was attended by Shri Rajeev Kumar, Finance Secretary; Shri Atanu Chakraborty, Secretary, DEA; Smt. Preeti Sudan, Secretary,\u00a0 Deptt. of Health &amp; Family Welfare;\u00a0 Shri Amit Khare,\u00a0 Secretary (Addl. Charge), Department of School Education and Literacy; Shri Amarjeet Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development; Shri Balram Bhargava, Secretary, DHR &amp; DF, ICMR ,Shri V.K. Paul, Member, NITI Aayog; Shri Pramod Chandra Mody, Chairman, CBDT; Dr K.V. Subramanian, CEA, and other senior officials of the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many suggestions given by representatives of Health, Education and Rural Development Sectors were benefits of child budgeting; a dedicated National Fund for protection of children; eradication of child labour; collecting gender disaggregated data by a National mission; policy to encourage healthy food habits via measures like higher taxes on sin products; broadening, expanding and strengthening PDS; land titles to women in view of increasing feminisation of agriculture; changes in general procurement guidelines to include disabled-friendly technology; waiver of tax on assisted technology for disabled persons; better compliance of Right to Education and more financial allocation for secondary level schools, especially to support girl child and \u00a0widening family healthcare support; augmenting pre-conception, antenatal and postnatal nutrition; employment generation with skill matching for youth in urban areas; focused skill development training for Adivasi and Dalit women; attracting more talent to aspirational districts with provision of tax holiday and a more effective monitoring of funds at Centre-State level.<\/p>\n<p>The major participants in the aforesaid meeting included Shri Abhinav Prakash, CSR Initiatives, Rashrtiya Sewa Bharati; Shri Ambrish Rai, National Convenor, Right to Education Forum; Shri Vijay Thadani, Past Chairman, CII Education Council; Smt. 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Hemalatha R., Director, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, Department of Health Research;\u00a0 Shri Chandrakant Lakhariya, National Professional Officer (Health Care, Access and Protection), WHO India; Shri Madan Diwan, Social Economist; Shri Rohit Prasad, COO, Help Age India, Shri Naresh Trehan, Executive Director, Public Health CII Centre Office; Shri Preeti Mahara, Director, Policy Research &amp; Advocacy, CRY-Child Rights and You; Shri Samir Mathur, CEO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan; Smt. Shobha Mishra Ghosh, Assistant Secretary General \u2013 Health &amp; Higher Education, FICCI; Mr Terry\u00a0 Durnnian, Chief Education Section, UNICEF;\u00a0 Shri S.M. Mehta, CEO, The Hans Foundation;\u00a0 Shri Yogendra Malik, National Secretary, National Medicos Organisation and\u00a0 Smt. 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