health schemes run by the Centre, including those meant for giving free healthcare access to 500 million people, under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, and for correcting regional imbalances in providing tertiary healthcare under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana.Also Read | The churn is on at the Kota factoryThe fund will also be used for emergency and disaster preparedness and for any future scheme designed to improve health outcomes.The government had in the union budget for FY19 expanded the 3% education cess levied on personal and corporation tax to a 4% ‘health and education cess’.
The intent was to raise about an extra Rs11,000 crore annually for healthcare needs of rural and below poverty line families.The new corpus.