- National Social Security Fund created for workers in unorganised sector with allocation of Rs.1,000 crore
- Government to give Rs.1,000 for each National Pension Scheme account opened by workers in the unorganised sector
- Exclusive skill development programme for the textile sector
- Fifty percent hike in allocation for schemes for women and child development
- Rs.4,500 crore allocated for ministry of social justice and empowerment, a hike of 80 percent
- Rs.2,600 crore allocated for ministry of minorities affairs
- Rs.1,900 crore for Unique Identification Authority of India
- Rs.147,344 crore allocated for defence
- 2,000 youth to be recruited in central paramilitary forces
- Draft Food Security Bill prepared and will be put in the public domain
- Allocation on primary education raised from Rs.26,800 crore to Rs.31,300 crore
- Banking facilities to be provided to all habitations with a population of 2,000 and more
- Rs.66,100 crore allocated for rural development in 2010-11; Rs.40,100 crore for National Rural Employment Scheme; RS.48,000 crore for Bharat Nirman
- Rs.1,270 crore allocated for Rajiv Awas Yojna for slum dwellers, up from Rs.150 crore, an increase of 700 percent with the aim of creating a slum free India.
- Forty-six percent of plan allocations in 2010-11 will be for infrastructure development
- Coal Regulatory Authority to be set up to benchmark standards of performance
- Allocation for new and renewable energy sector increased 61 percent from Rs.620 crore to Rs.1,000 crore in 2010-11
- National Clean Energy Fund to be established
- Rs.200 crore allocated as special package for Goa to prevent erosion and increase green cover
- Government committed to growth of SEZs
- Four-pronged strategy for growth of agricultural sector
- Rs.200 crore to be provided in 2010-11 for climate-resilient agricultural initiative
- Involvement of private sector in grain storage to continue for another two years
- In view of drought and floods, debt repayment period extended to June 2010
- Five more mega food processing projects in addition to 10 existing ones
- FDI flows in April-December 2009 $20.9 billion
- FDI policy to be made more user-friendly with one comprehensive document
- Apex level financial stability council to be set up for banking sector
- Indian Banking Association to give additional licences to private players
- Provision for further capital for regional rural banks
- Roadmap for reducing public debt in six months
- Implementation of direct tax code from April 2011
- Government actively engaged in finalising structure of general sales tax regime; hopes to implement it from April 2011
- New fertiliser policy from April 2010; will lead to improved productively and more income for farmers
- Economy stabilised in first quarter of 2009-10; strong rebound in second quarter; overall growth at 7.2 and could be higher when Q3 and Q4 are taken into account
- Export figures for January encouraging
- Hope to breach 10 percent growth mark in not too distant future
- Government set in motion steps to bring down food inflation
- Need to review stimulus package; need to make growth more broad-based
- India has weathered global economic crisis well; Indian economy in far better position than it was a year ago. In 2009 Indian economy faced grave uncertainty; delay in southwest monsoon had undermined agricultural production
- First challenge now is to quickly revert to 9 percent growth and then aim for double digit growth; need to make recovery more broad based
- Second challenge is to make growth more inclusive; have to strengthen food security
- Third challenge is to overcome weakness in government's public delivery mechanism; a long way to go in this
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