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Alwar become the first district in the country to achieve 100% insurance coverage under the Centre's ‘Insurance for All by 2047' roadmap

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APPROPRIATION BILL –
Constitutional Basis:
• Article 114
• Article 266(3) – No withdrawal from Consolidated Fund without law

Meaning:
Authorizes withdrawal of money from the Consolidated Fund of India (CFI) after Demands for Grants are voted.

What it includes:
1. Voted expenditure (Lok Sabha approved)
2. Charged expenditure (not voted, only discussed)

Charged Expenditure examples:
• President salary
• SC/HC judges salary
• CAG
• Interest on govt debt
• UPSC, Election Commission

Nature:
- Money Bill (Art 110)
- Introduced only in Lok Sabha
- President’s recommendation required
- Rajya Sabha cannot amend (14 days limit)
- President cannot return

Trap for Prelims:
✖ Originates in RS – No
✖ President can veto – No
✖ Deals with taxation – No
✖ Introduced before voting – No

Flow:
Budget —> Demands for Grants —> Appropriation Bill —> Assent —> Withdrawal from CFI

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Dr. Rajendra Prasad –

• Born: 3 Dec 1884, Ziradei (Siwan)
• Died: 28 Feb 1963
• India’s First President (1950–1962)
• Only President to serve two full terms

Role in Freedom Movement
• Champaran Satyagraha (1917)
• Non-Cooperation Movement (left lucrative legal practice)
• Civil Disobedience Movement
• Quit India Movement (arrested 9 Aug 1942)
• Arrested under Bharat Security Rules —> Sent to Bankipur Jail (Patna)

• President of INC (1934, 1939)
• Awarded Bharat Ratna (1962)

• Wrote autobiography:
• “Autobiography of Rajendra Prasad”
• “India Divided”

Important
• CA President – 11 Dec 1946
• Quit India arrest —> Bankipur Jail
• Chairman, Patna Municipality (1923)
• Known as Gandhi of Bihar
• Considered Lord Minto (Morley–Minto Reforms 1909; communal electorate) as father of Pakistan
• Associated with Kisan Movement in Bihar
• Chairman, Patna Municipality (1923)
• Relief work during Bihar floods & 1934 earthquake

Interim Government (1946)
• Held Food & Agri Dept.

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