I am going back by a few decades when late Shri Rajiv Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India. He went on Bharat Darshan. He went to villages in all parts of India. He went to the North, South, East and West and visited places where no other Indian has visited and along with him, he took his wife, Shrimati Sonia Gandhi. There is a reason of my mentioning about thhis as she has learnt a lot from those visits because she has seen how rural India lives and what people in rural Indian need. That is why, I am sure, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has taken some ideas from her and from Dr. Manmohan Singh and formulated an Aam Aadmi Budget, a Budget which will uplift the whole of rural India and also give a fillip and kick start our economy. Sir, I would just like to quote a few figures because Shri Ananth Kumar waxed eloquent when he quoted a lot of figures. This Budget has given nearly Rs. 2 lakh crore for social sector. Bharat Nirman has been allotted Rs. 40,900 crore. Bharat Nirman is having a lot of programmes in rural India. NREGA, which is a National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, has an allocation of Rs. 30,100 crore and fertiliser subsidy is Rs. 20,000 for the farmers. Sir, under the National Rural Health Programme, the allocation is Rs. 12,070 crore. He was saying that it is 0.25 per cent or 1 per cent. I do not know what figures he was quoting because if you take four per cent average, it is for five years and it is not as if we have to give every year four per cent. So, the total figure will probably come to four per cent. Then I come to Mid-Day Meal Scheme. This is the scheme which was started by our late Chief Minister, respected Shri Kamraj Nadar who wanted people's children not only to get education but also benefit from health and education.
