Saturday, February 28, 2015

#HighlightBudget2015 #FromJanDhantoJanSuraksha

From Jan Dhan to Jan Suraksha


  • A new scheme for providing Physical Aids and Assisted Living Devices for senior citizens, living below the poverty line.
  • Unclaimed deposits of about `3,000 crores in the PPF, and approximately `6,000 crores in the EPF corpus. The amounts to be appropriated to a corpus, which will be used to subsidize the premiums on these social security schemes through creation of a Senior Citizen Welfare Fund in the Finance Bill.
  • Government committed to the on-going schemes for welfare of SCs, STs and Women.