To pave the way for a staff-level agreement and release of $1 billion tranche under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF), a timeframe of two to three weeks has been given for implementing "all required actions".
The Finance Minister on Wednesday said in response to a query in Rajya Sabha, "Today, the situation is that we have come up with demand of grants which are essentially for ensuring there is food security and there is also enough to be given for fertilisers which is so critical for our farmer
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said the processes for recovering money for depositors post bank loan write-offs are "layered", while noting that small depositors are put to "extreme difficulty" in the process of justice delivery.
The Appropriation Bill gives power to the government to withdraw funds from the Consolidated Fund of India for meeting the expenditure during the financial year.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharama will move both the Bills in the afternoon. These Bills will be moved to the Upper House for consideration and return to the Lok Sabha where these have already been passed.
A UP delegation visited the FalconX office at Fremont in California and signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the organisation for establishing an accelerator at Nodia and two investments of over 20 crores each.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who is the chairperson of the GST Council, said as many as 15 items were on agenda during today's GST Council meeting, of which eight were completed, and the remaining are to be carried forward to the next council meet.
UP delegation led by Finance Minister Suresh Khanna, Ex-minister Sidharth Nath Singh, Advisor to CM Awanish K Awasthi, Additional Chief Secretary Infra and Industrial Development Arvind Kumar and Secretary to CM Amit Singh visited a Green energy company Bloom Energy.
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday, while participating in the Zero Hour session in the Rajya Sabha, said the Reserve Bank of India and various central government ministries are making efforts to ensure people are not cheated by "dubious" Chinese loan apps.