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.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday gave a measured response to the Union budget, hailing a few key announcements but also denouncing some of the declarations made by the Centre.
The Union minister also announced a National Data Governance Policy, which will enable access to anonymised data. The Finance Minister said this will unleash innovation and research by start-ups and academia.
Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Khanna welcomed the Union Budget, saying that it will benefit the common citizen and also create demand in the market.
Be it capital expenditure, the asset quality of banks, foreign exchange reserves, GST collections, fiscal consolidation path, and convergence of wholesale and retail inflation, Budget document data showed all these indicators to be on strong ground.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC Kavitha Kalvakuntla on Wednesday termed the Union Budget presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as a "failure" of the Central government.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2023 today in Lok Sabha. This was the third time in a row that the government presented the budget in a paperless form.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced an increase in the income tax rebate limit from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 7 lakh stating that the new tax regime will now be the default tax regime.