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Leaders call budget, 'second surgical strike', path to 'New India'
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Allies of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance were unanimous in hailing the interim budget as one which paved a path to a "New India" and with some leaders like Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan even equating it to a "second surgical strike" by the governme
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NE region budget allocation hiked by 21%
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi, February 1 (ANI): The Centre has proposed Rs 58,166 crore budget allocations to the North Eastern region, with an increase of 21 per cent.
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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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Budget 2019: Rs 7,23,000 crore disbursed under Mudra Yojana, says Finance
Updated : 7 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 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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Interim Budget: Not something new in India
Updated : 7 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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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Interim Budget beneficial for every one, says Ramdev
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Yog guru Ramdev on Friday said the Interim Budget was "beneficial" for every section and since it was an election year it would be termed a "political budget".
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Working on digital IT refund generation in 24hrs: Piyush Goyal
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said the Centre is working on a method to ensure digital generation of income tax refund within 24 hours from the time of filing for returns.
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