NDTV's video: Budget 2021: P Chidambaram Calls Health Budget Conjurer s Trick

Senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram called the health budget a "conjurer's trick". Mr Chidambaram said that "this jump from Rs 90,000-odd crore to Rs 223,000 crore is by adding the cost of vaccination and by adding the Finance Commission grants and by adding the allocation for the department of water and sanitation. Why is that a separate department if it's under health and family welfare? You can't add water and sanitation grants and boost your numbers. If you take out all these numbers, the increase is only modest." NDTV is one of the leaders in the production and broadcasting of un-biased and comprehensive news and entertainment programmes in India and abroad. NDTV delivers reliable information across all platforms: TV, Internet and Mobile. Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/ndtv?sub_confirmation=1 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ndtv Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ndtv Download the NDTV Apps: http://www.ndtv.com/page/apps Watch more videos: http://www.ndtv.com/video?yt