FM Presents India-first Interim Budget, Infra, Housing Get Boost, No Change In Income Tax
Budget 2024 LIVE Updates: The government will take up next-generation reforms to facilitate growth and the next five years will be of unprecedented development and golden moments to realise the dream of developed India by 2047, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the pre-election budget listing out achievements of the Modi government in the past 10 years while giving a glimpse of the future plans to make India a developed nation by 2047.
While presenting the interim budget, Sitharaman said the Modi government covered all aspects of inclusivity. She added that the people of India are looking ahead to the future with hope and options. Structural reforms, pro-people programmes and employment opportunities helped the economy get new vigour.
India overcame the challenges of Covid-19, and created foundations for self-reliant India. Worries about food being eliminated through free ration for 80 crore people.
Based on astonishing work, she said that the government will be blessed again by the people with a resounding mandate.
She said that the focus of the government is on 4 major castes; Garib (poor), Mahilayein (women), Yuva (youth),
