{"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":"

    This is people’s budget. This is the ‘by the people, of the people, for the people budget’. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":48577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/7738lfuo_nirmala-sitharaman_625x300_02_February_25-kKU99i.jpeg",1053,602,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/7738lfuo_nirmala-sitharaman_625x300_02_February_25-kKU99i-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/7738lfuo_nirmala-sitharaman_625x300_02_February_25-kKU99i-300x172.jpeg",300,172,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/7738lfuo_nirmala-sitharaman_625x300_02_February_25-kKU99i-768x439.jpeg",640,366,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/7738lfuo_nirmala-sitharaman_625x300_02_February_25-kKU99i-1024x585.jpeg",640,366,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/7738lfuo_nirmala-sitharaman_625x300_02_February_25-kKU99i.jpeg",1053,602,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/7738lfuo_nirmala-sitharaman_625x300_02_February_25-kKU99i.jpeg",1053,602,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/7738lfuo_nirmala-sitharaman_625x300_02_February_25-kKU99i-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/7738lfuo_nirmala-sitharaman_625x300_02_February_25-kKU99i-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}