{"id":48576,"date":"2025-02-02T07:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T07:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=48576"},"modified":"2025-02-02T07:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T07:51:31","slug":"not-a-budget-for-polls-n-sitharaman-to-ndtv-on-oppositions-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=48576","title":{"rendered":"“Not A Budget For Polls”: N Sitharaman To NDTV On Opposition’s Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. This is people’s budget. This is the ‘by the people, of the people, for the people budget’.<\/li>\n
  2. The Modi government<\/a> has always recognised honest taxpayers. The aim is to provide support to the middle class.<\/li>\n
  3. The government has created a balance between strengthening the foundation of a ‘Viksit Bharat’ and equally focusing on key sectors like health, nutrition and education through welfare schemes.<\/li>\n
  4. The focus has been on capital expenditure<\/a> (capex) in the last few years of the Modi government, and now the government has also given a huge boost to increasing consumption.<\/li>\n
  5. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has been increasing capex by 10-15 per cent to such an extent that the government announced a capex of Rs 11.11 lakh crore last year.<\/li>\n
  6. On top of that, a rise in capex by 10.23 per cent in comparison to RE (revenue expenditure) takes it to over Rs 11.21 lakh crore. That is not an ordinary thing.<\/li>\n
  7. Repeatedly, the public expenditure on asset building has reached such a level that 10.23 per cent growth also seems ordinary.<\/li>\n
  8. The Centre has introduced custom duty rationalisation<\/a> to ensure the Indian economy becomes ‘aatmanirbhar’ (self-reliant).<\/li>\n
  9. We are looking at our own economy. We are looking to strengthen the foundation of the Indian economy, to make it a manufacturing hub.<\/li>\n
  10. No one can say no to AI-driven, technology-driven<\/a> processes… We are developing centres to train people for AI.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u200bIn an exclusive interview with NDTV Sunday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rejected the criticism from the Opposition that the BJP-led Centre was only trying to attract voters in Bihar and Delhi through the announcements in the Union Budget.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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