Budget balances growth, employment, and welfare goals: FM
Replying to the general discussion on the Budget, she said the Budget is in continuity of the interim Budget and subsumes its features.
Interim Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday presented the last budget of the NDA 2.0 government. In her much-awaited Budget 2024 speech, began with highlighting the “positive transformation” of the Indian economy that took place in the last 10 years of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government.
The finance minister exuded confidence that her government will be choosen again by the people with a resounding mandate in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections based on its performance in the last 10 years.
She claimed that since 2014, the Modi government has assisted 25 cr people to come out of the multi-dimensional poverty.
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Sitharaman also mentioned the flagship schemes of Modi government in the last 10 years, including the Skill India Mission, crop insurance scheme for farmers, free ration distribution to 80 crore people, and the Ayushman Bharat medical insurance scheme.
She also announced a new scheme will be launched to help “deserving sections of middle class to buy or build their own houses.”
Below are the top quotes of Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget 2024 speech:
- We are working to make India a Viksit Bharat by 2047. Previously, social justice was only a political slogan. For our government, it is a necessary governance model”: FM
- Speaking about the recently announced rooftop solarisation scheme, Sitharaman said, “One crore households will be enabled to obtain 300 units of free electricity every month.”
- “Our government plans to set up more medical colleges by using existing hospital infrastructure. A committee will be set up to make recommendations on this. The Ayushman Bharat Scheme will be extended to all Aasha, Aanganwadi workers and helpers.”
- “PM Awas Gramin Yojana close to achieving 3 crore houses. Another 2 crore houses will be taken up in next 5 years”: FM
- The government will expand and strengthen the EV ecosystem by supporting manufacturing and charging infrastructure:” FM
- A corpus of Rs 1 lakh crore with 50-year interest free loans will provide long term financing at low or nil interest rates for the private sector to scale up research in sunrise sectors: FM
- To promote green growth, a new scheme of bio-manufacturing will be launched: FM
- Government will encourage vaccination for girls for prevention of cervical cancer: FM Sitharaman
- PM Awas Gramin Yojana close to achieving 3 crore houses; another 2 crore houses will be taken up in next 5 years”: FM
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