Ahead of the upcoming election of the 18th Lok Sabha (lower house of India’s bicameral parliamentary), Nirmala Sitharaman, union minister of Finance, announced the government’s interim 2024-2025 budget.
India plans to spend a provisional sum of Rs 90,171 crore ($10.8 billion) for healthcare in the coming fiscal year, increasing from Rs 79,221 crore ($9.5 billion) previously. Some of it will go to the following key projects:
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extension of the…