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At Rs 3 Lakh crore, defence budget is highest ever: FM
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India), Feb 1 (ANI): Allocation for defence budget has for the first time crossed the Rs three lakh crore mark with the government setting aside Rs 3,18,931 crore for the sector in the interim budget 2019-20, which is a hike of over Rs 20,000 crore allotted last year.
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Budget 2019: Rs 3,27,679 crore for centrally sponsored schemes
Updated : 7 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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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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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