The stock market responded positively to the Union Budget 2023-24, with the benchmark BSE Sensex recording a surge by more than 1100 points during afternoon trade on Wednesday.
Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma has praised the Union Budget 2023-24 which was presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the parliament on Wednesday.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget speech on Wednesday said that States would be encouraged to set up a Unity Mall in their state capital or most prominent tourism centre or financial capital.
CM Chouhan also said, "It is a budget to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi's resolve to build a self-reliant India. It is the budget for building a glorious, prosperous and powerful India. It is an omnipresent budget, the welfare of every sector of the society and every state of the countr
He said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman demonstrated how far removed the government is from the people and their concerns about life, livelihood and the growing inequality between the rich and the poor.
Karnataka's Water Resource Minister Govinda Karajola on Wednesday expressed gratitude to the Central government for granting Rs 5,300 crores for Upper Bhadra Project in the state.
Opposition parties slammed the Union Budget 2023, the last full-fledged Budget of the Modi government in its second term, and said that the Budget offers no solution to address the rampant unemployment, rising inflation as well as the growing inequality between the rich and the poor.
"The Real Sector had its share of ups and downs. To make homes more affordable and bolster the vision of "affordable housing", the Budget has introduced schemes to facilitate it," Chhajer informed in a statement.
The Union Budget is not people-friendly as it has been prepared keeping in mind the interests of a few businessmen, Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti said.