UPA to focus on farm, infrastructure
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22/05/2004
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Business Line (New Delhi)
With the initial Government-making hurdles now behind it, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government led by economist-politician Dr Manmohan Singh gets down to the brass-tacks, laying thrust on agriculture and physical infrastructure such as roads, airport and social infrastructure like education, employment and health insurance. Senior Government officials who prepared a background note on the state of the economy for the new Government's budget-making exercise told that the public work programmes initiated by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) such as the Golden Quadrilateral, Pradhan Mantri Sadak Yojana, the President Dr A.P.J.Abdul Kalam's brainchild PURA (Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas), Sarvasiksha Abiyhan for providing elementary education and health insurance to the unorganised workforce, both in farm and in off-farm activities, would continue to be funded.