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Budget has set highest ever capital expenditure target: Rajnath Singh
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 2 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday expressed his happiness at the budget proposal to open 100 new Sainik Schools in the country and said several new programmes to support India's farmers, agriculture, infrastructure and reinvigoration of human re
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Total planned capital expenditure for Railways of over Rs 2 lakh crore is
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Indian Railways now has the highest ever total planned capital expenditure of Rs. 2,15,058 crore this year with Rs 7,500 crore from internal resources, Rs 1,00,258 crore from extra-budgetary resources and Rs 1,07,100 crore for capital expenditure in the G
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Budget 2021: CII hails 34.5 pc rise budgeted in capital expenditure
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Director-General, Chandrajit Banerjee on Monday welcomed the Union Budget presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and said it favoured a major expansion in government spending with a focus on capit
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India Inc gives thumbs up to Budget
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): The industry stakeholders gave thumbs up to the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday, saying it gave a booster dose to the economy through six pillars of mega rise in capital expenditure on healthcare, physical infrastru
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FM endorses National Rail Plan in Union Budget, announces record outlay of
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): While presenting the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament on Monday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman endorsed the National Rail Plan for India - 2030 and announced a record outlay of Rs 1,10,055 crore to Indian Railways of which Rs 1,07,100 crore is for
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Key highlights of Union Budget 2021-22
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced higher capital expenditure for the FY 2021-22 and focused on providing a major boost to healthcare and infrastructure building.
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Sitharaman proposes 34.5 pc hike in capital expenditure to Rs 5.54 lakh cr
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday proposed a sharp 34.5 per cent hike in capital expenditure for the FY2021-22 to Rs 5.54 lakh crores to push growth.
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FY21 fiscal deficit at 9.5 pc of GDP
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday the fiscal deficit for FY21 has been pegged at 9.5 per cent of the GDP and will come down to 6.8 per cent in FY22.
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Watch out for increase in healthcare, defence expenditure, says Chidambara
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Ahead of the keenly awaited Union Budget 2021, senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday asked the people of the country to watch out for an increase in healthcare and defence expenditure.
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Economic Survey calls for scaling up of business sector contribution to R&
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 29 (ANI): Asserting that India needs a greater thrust on innovation to catapult itself to a higher growth trajectory, the Economic Survey has emphasised on the need of boosting gross expenditure on Research and Development (R&D) and called for scaling up of
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Rajasthan becomes fifth state to complete Urban Local Bodies reforms
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): Rajasthan has become the fifth state to complete the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) reforms stipulated by the Department of Expenditure, read a release by the Ministry of Finance.
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Ministry of Finance grants Rs 12,351 cr to rural local bodies
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI): The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance on Wednesday released an amount of Rs 12,351.5 crore to 18 States for providing grants to the rural local bodies (RLBs).
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