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Budget 2019: Rs 3,27,679 crore for centrally sponsored schemes
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): A whopping Rs 3,27,679 crore has been proposed to be allocated to the Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) in the Budget Estimates (BE, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday while presenting the interim Budget for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha.
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7th dimension for our vision aims at outer skies: Piyush Goyal
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Underlining the success of Indian space programme, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that the seventh dimension of the government's vision for the next decade aims at the outer skies.
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Govt committee to identify nomadic communities
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Government will set up a panel under NITI Aayog to identify de-notified nomadic and semi-nomadic communities and implement programmes for their welfare, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced while presenting the budget on Friday.
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Budget 2019: 2% interest subvention for MSMEs on loan up to Rs 1 Cr
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): In a bid to strengthen the Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSMEs), Finance Minister Piyush Goyal launched a scheme to sanction loans upto Rs 1 crore in 59 minutes on Friday in the last budget of the current Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) government.
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Budget 2019: Centre to improve expenditure efficiency, improve tax collect
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The Central government will focus on improving expenditure efficiency and improve tax collections to ensure that the economy moves back to the fiscal deficit path as mentioned in the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act, Finance Minister Piyu
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Budget 2019: Rs 7,23,000 crore disbursed under Mudra Yojana, says Finance
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The Centre has disbursed Rs 7,23,000 crore against 15.56 crore loans so far, said Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday while presenting the interim Budget for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha.
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Budget 2019: Our government broke the back of back-breaking inflation, say
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that his government has been able to “break the back of back-breaking inflation” in the past around five years, which has now come down to average at 4.6 per cent.
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Interim Budget injected lot of 'josh' without losing 'hosh': SpiceJet Chai
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Chairman and Managing Director, SpiceJet, Ajay Singh, on Friday heaped praises on the interim Budget 2019-2020 presented by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal in the Parliament earlier today, saying it is a people's budget that will benefit India's economy and coul
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Financial support to farmers is not “dole” but mark of respect for ‘anna d
Updated : 7 years, 4 months 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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Vote-on-Account: Additional provision of Rs 666.66 crore for conducting ge
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): An additional provision of Rs 666.66 crore (voted) in revenue section has been provided for conducting general elections to Law and Justice Ministry in the vote-on-account presented in Parliament on Friday.
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Interim Budget: Not something new in India
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The Interim Budget, which Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presented in the Lok Sabha on Friday, is not something new in India’s parliamentary governance. Goyal, who got the charge of Finance Ministry only recently after Union Minister Arun Jaitley went
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The only thing this government knows about jobs is ‘Pakodanomics’: Chidamb
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday asked why there was no mention of the words education and jobs in the Interim Budget speech of Union Minister Piyush Goyal and said the only thing the NDA government knows about jobs is ‘Pakodanomics’.
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