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Budget gives new hope that India will face headwinds with confidence, says
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Terming the Union Budget 2020-21 as "ambitious", Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday said that the Budget gives a new hope that the country will face the headwinds with confidence and will march ahead.
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FM spoke of everything but the Budget: Sitaram Yechury
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Reacting to the Union Budget 2020-21, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury on Saturday said that the Union Finance Minister spoke of "everything but the Budget" in her two-and-a-half-hour long speech. He alleged the Minister failed to address the "real issues facing t
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Goa Shiv Sena slams union budget over 'lack-of state-specific allocations'
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Shiv Sena Goa Vice President Rakhi Prabhudesai Naik on Saturday criticised the union budget over the allocations made for Goa while alleging that the Centre had "specifically left out the state".
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Mamata slams Centre for proposed divestment from LIC
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday slammed the central government for proposing to sell a part of its shares in LIC, saying that it is a plan to "ambush the heritage and legacy of the public institutions".
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Economic development for all entails giving more space to private sector f
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New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The economic development for all, which is one of the three prominent themes of the Union Budget, entails pervasive economic reforms and yielding more space to the private sector to ensure higher productivity and greater efficiency.
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Budget to provide relief to poor, farmers: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said that the focus of the Modi government is to give poor people and farmers relief and thus the budget has allocated Rs 2,83,000 crore for agriculture.
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Public-private partnership encouraged in budget, says NITI Aayog CEO Amita
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog said that the Union Budget 2020-21 focuses on increasing the contribution of the private sector in the growth of the economy by giving importance to public-private partnership (PPP) Model.
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Budget seeks to strengthen grassroots of economy: Walmart India
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): President and CEO at Walmart India Krish Iyer said on Saturday the Union Budget 2020-21 seeks to strengthen grassroots of the economy with its positive push towards the creation of strong agriculture infrastructure.
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Data Centre Parks policy soon for private firms to leverage power of data
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget 2020-21 on Saturday, made proposals for leveraging data including a policy to enable private sector in building the Data Centre Parks throughout the countries, thus enabling firms to incorp
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Startup giants, tourism industry majors hail Union Budget
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Start-up giants and tourism industry major have hailed the Union Budget 2020-21 terming it a boost to tourism, industry, connectivity, job creation, start-ups, etc.
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Budget will boost incomes as well as demand and investment, says PM Modi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the Union Budget 2020-21 presented by his government has been designed to boost income and investment on one hand and demand and consumption on the other.
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Budget 2020-21 aims at energising Indian economy
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The Union Budget 2020-21, which Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented in the Lok Sabha on Saturday, aims at energising the economy of India through a combination of short-term, medium-term, and long term measures.
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