Jaipur | Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Friday alleged that CM Ashok Gehlot read out from the old budget in the Assembly. She said that Gehlot kept on reading from the budget for almost eight minutes. “A Chief Minister coming to the Assembly without reading or checking the budget that he is going to […]
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Economy faces grave risks, govt in denial mode: Chidambaram
New Delhi: Accusing the government of being in a denial mode amid the economy facing grave challenges, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram here on Saturday said the people didn’t deserve such a budget for voting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power. “The government is in complete denial that the economy faces a grave macro […]
Railways gets Rs 70,000 cr in budget, salary remains headache
New Delhi: Railways has got a budgetary allocation of Rs 70,000 crore and the highest-ever outlay for capital expenditure amounting to Rs 1.61 lakh crore from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget for 2020-21 presented on Saturday. The capital expenditure of Rs 1.61 crore is higher than revised estimate of 2019-20 by 2.99 […]
FM banks on external funding to boost higher education
New Delhi: Saddled with a sluggish economy that is forcing the government to boost spending on agriculture and rural sectors, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has set her sights on foreign investments and external commercial borrowings to fund the higher education sector in India. Presenting the Union Budget in Parliament on Saturday, Sitharaman announced a […]
FM quotes Tamil poetess in Budget speech
Chennai: After Thiruvalluvar and Pisirandaiyar it was the turn of Tamil saint-poetess Avvaiyar to be quoted by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during her Budget speech. Presenting the 2020-21 Budget in Parliament on Saturday, Sitharaman while speaking about the government’s plan to encourage balanced use of all kinds of fertilisers instead of just chemical fertiliser […]
High flowing couplets in Nirmala’s budget do little to ease economic woes
New Delhi: It was an unusually long 2 hours, 41 minutes Budget speech by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, where she tried to come across as ‘pro-farmer’ while devising a new tax regime aimed at the middle class. however, beyond the couplets and promises, the specifics showed either no increase in allocation or marginal. With very […]
FM moots 16-point plan to revive agri, allied sectors
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday mooted a 16-point plan to revive the agriculture and allied sectors. Presenting her second Union Budget on Saturday, Sitharaman announced funding allocations totalling Rs 4.06 lakh crore for the agriculture and rural sectors. Out of this, Rs 2.83 lakh crore will be allocated to agriculture while […]
Nothing concrete in the budget: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has said there is nothing concrete in the budget as the biggest problem in front of the country is unemployment and the government has not addressed that. Our youth want jobs. Instead they got the longest budget speech in parliamentary history that said absolutely nothing of consequence. PM […]
Budget shows Delhi not BJP’s priority: Kejriwal
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday that the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has proved that the national capital is not in BJP’s priority list, as he questioned why people should vote for the saffron party when it has disappointed the city just before the Assembly elections. “Delhi […]
FM kicks off 2020 Budget countdown with ‘Halwa’ ceremony
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday kicked off the countdown to the Union Budget on February 1 by joining the ‘Halwa’ ceremony and with this the the Budget paper printing starts under utmost secrecy. #HalwaCeremony marks the beginning of printing of budget documents Finance Minister @nsitharaman and MoS @ianuragthakur relish some halwa during […]