Interim Budget 2019 News
Rajya Sabha passed the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address and the Appropriation Bill without debate.
In the interim budget, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced direct income support of Rs 6,000 per year to 12 crore small and marginal farmers holding cultivable land up to 2 hectare.
Rs 37,461.01 crore has been allocated for higher education, Rs 56,386.63 crore has been earmarked for school education.
In a series of tweets, the actor-turned-politician said that he was in agreement with former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's view that it was an "account for votes and not a vote on account".
Neither he nor the government has commented on the nature of his illness but reports suggest he was suffering from soft tissue cancer and had to be operated upon.
The allocation for Startup India programme has been slashed to Rs 25 crore for 2019-20 from the revised estimate of Rs 28 crore in 2018-19.
According to the Centre, the new scheme is going to benefit 12 crore farmers and cost the exchequer Rs 75,000 crore annually, PTI reported.
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The Congress has accused the government of presenting a full-fledged budget instead of an interim one. They have said that "It is not a vote on account but an account for votes".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised Piyush Goel for presenting budget 2019 and said that this new budget will take the nation on new levels of development.
Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced a mega pension scheme for the workers in the unorganised sector.
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Jaitley underlined that the Modi government had efficiently maintained the fiscal discipline as the fiscal deficit and CAD have been contained and inflation has been reduced drastically while GDP kept growing.
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FM Piyush Goyal on Friday said that the Interim Budget 2019 presents a roadmap for making India world leader.
The outlay for the University Grants Commission (UGC) is Rs 4,600.66 in the budget, a decrease from Rs 4,722.75 crore in 2018-19
The agency said in the interim budget there is an absence of new policies to boost revenues but has many measures leading to higher expenditure which though will increase consumption will also increase the fiscal burden.
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