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Odisha CM Patnaik welcomes tax benefits for middle, lower income groups
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday welcomed the tax benefits proposed for middle and lower income groups and the direct benefit transfer proposed for small and marginal farmers on the line of Odisha's KALIA scheme.
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Maha CM calls budget a gift to farmers, women, middle class
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Faridabad (Haryana) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday termed the Centre's interim budget as a gift to farmers, labourers, women and the middle class.
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Direct transfer to farmers will strengthen economic condition of rural are
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday hailed the decision of transferring Rs 6000 directly to farmers account and said that this step will strengthen the economic condition of rural areas.
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Farmers' march blocks DND flyway
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Traffic on the Delhi-Noida Flyway (DND) was severely disrupted for few hours after farmers on Friday took to the streets demanding fourfold compensation in lieu of their land acquisition.
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Interim Budget: PM-KISAN draws mixed response from farmers
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Farmers and their concerned organizations across India seem to be divided on the central government’s latest announcement to introduce a new scheme in the agriculture sector which will entail payment of Rs 6,000 annually to each of the 12 crore margin
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Meet Joyshree Borah, a successful farmer-entrepreneur from Jorhat
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Jorhat (Assam) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Empowered women are those who empower others towards success and Joyshree Borah is one such woman.
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Financial support to farmers is not “dole” but mark of respect for ‘anna d
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The scheme to give financial support to marginal farmers is “not a dole” or “charity” but a mark of “respect” for the agriculturists who feed the nation, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday, hours after making th
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Budget progressive, gives bigger picture of India's development growth: Am
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Terming the interim budget as progressive and positive, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Friday said the government's "pathbreaking" budget has provided a narrative of India's continued development growth.
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Top 20 highlights of Budget 2019
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Following are the highlights of the budget
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5 years of incompetence, arrogance destroyed lives of our farmers: Rahul G
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Leading the Opposition's attack against the interim budget 2019-20, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday blamed Narendra Modi government for destroying the lives of the farmers by providing a direct minimum income for farmers stating that giving t
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Shah takes potshot at Congress’ farm loan waiver, says govt's Kisan Samman
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 01 (ANI): Aiming a thinly-veiled jibe at the Congress over their farm-loan waivers, BJP president Amit Shah on Friday said that the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi is a more long-term solution for farmers’ plights and will play a big role in doubling their i
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Interim Budget: Income Tax exemption raised to Rs 5 lakh, financial suppor
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The government on Friday raised the Individual Income Tax exemption limit to Rs 5 lakh per annum and announced a major financial support scheme for the farmers as well as a pension scheme for the unorganised sector as it presented a ‘feel-good’ interim Budget
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