2021-02-01 13:20 IST
This is a budget for 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat', will strengthen economy: Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh
This is a budget for 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat', will strengthen economy: Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday commenced presentation of the Budget for 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha. India's first Budget post the onset of Covid-19 pandemic is being presented in Parliament which is her her third and most significant Finance Bill
This year's Budget assumes significance as the Centre has to play a balancing act between inducing fiscal expansion, giving demand stimulus and maintaining the deficit under control.
Sitharaman, who had in her first budget in 2019 replaced leather briefcase that had been for decades used for carrying budget documents with a traditional red cloth 'bahi-khata', had earlier this month stated that the budget for the fiscal year beginning April will be "like never before".
This is a budget for 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat', will strengthen economy: Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh
Amid the 2020-21 Union Budget being presented on Monday, Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has taken a jibe at the Narendra Modi government by saying that the government must make provisions for the restoration of self-respect of farmers and workers, women and the youth and freedom of speech.
FM proposes tax exemption for aircraft leasing cos; tax exemption for notified affordable housing for migrant workers
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday proposed the construction of 8,500 km highway by March 2022.
Four poll-bound states - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Assam - got a major chunk of the proposed new highway projects.
Assembly elections in these four states along with Puducherry will be held later this year.