Budget speech: FM announces Rs 1.4 lakh crore for Swachch Bharat 2.0

Name: Budget speech: FM announces Rs 1.4 lakh crore for Swachch Bharat 2.0
Uploaded: 01 Feb 2023, 12:59:49 PM
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4 views | Feb 01, 2023, 12:59:49 PM | TOI.in

The government has allocated Rs 1,41,678 crore to tackle water, land and air pollution, besides waste management over the next five years. In her Budget speech on Monday, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman dubbed the initiative 'Urban Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0'. "For further swachhta of urban India, we intend to focus on complete faecal sludge management and waste water treatment, source segregation of garbage, reduction in single-use plastic, reduction in air pollution by effectively managing waste from construction-and-demolition activities and bio-remediation of all legacy dump sites," the minister said. Sitharaman said the government has allocated another Rs 2,217 crore for tackling air pollution specifically. This money would be invested across 42 cities having a population of more than 1 million residents, she added.

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