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Quiz Current Affairs 2025-26 February 2025

September 07, 2025
  • This tradition was put to an end after a span of 92 years with the announcement of the Merged Union Budget 2017-18 by the Finance Minister at that time Arun Jaitley.
  • This choice to combine these two budgets was informed by a committee of this nature that was chaired by Bibek Debroy.

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    TEAM Initiative

     

    • Ministry of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises introduced the Trade Enablement and Marketing (TEAM) Initiative.
    • It has been initiated through the Programme - "Raising and Accelerating MSME Productivity (RAMP)".
    • It is targeted at allowing MSMEs to adopt digital trade, and drive expanded market.
    • The World Bank promoted Central Sector Scheme called RAMP is operational during the period 2022-23 to 2026-27.

     

    PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana

     

    • The 2025 Budget declared the opening of the PM Dhan Dhanya Krishi Yojana, an initiative by which 1.7 crore farmers in the nation will be benefited.
    • The scheme will improve the agricultural productivity, improve diversification of crops, improve the post-harvest storage both at panchayats and block levels.
    • It will also enhance irrigation facilities, and availability of both short and long term credit to the farmers.
    • Additionally, a Makhana Board also established in Bihar to support farmers in the region.

     

    Jal Jeevan mission extension

     

    • The Budget speech of 2025-26 has proposed extending the Jal Jeevan Mission till the year 2028 with an increased amount of total outlay.
    • In 2019 alone, 150 million households access potable tap water connections, and this is 80 per cent of the rural population in India.
    • The Jal Jeevan Mission is projected to be extended till 2028 to reach the 100 per cent coverage point.
    • The estimated expenditure amount of 2024-25 was roughly Rs 70,163 crore.
    • This year, the expenditure is Rs 67,000 crore compared to an outlay of Rs 3,163 crore less than last years outlay.
    • In August 2019, the Jal Jeevan Mission was launched with the ambitious target of giving all rural households tap water by 2024

     

    Gender Budget 2025-26

     

    • The proportion of Gender Budget included of total Union Budget has gone up to 8.86 per cent in FY 2025-26 as compared to 6.8 per cent in FY 2024-25.
    • The gender budget statement 2025-26 under the women and girl welfare has been allocated Rs. 4.49 lakh crore.
    • It is a rise of 37.25 per cent of the Rs. 3.27 lakh crore GBS allocation in 2024-25.

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