Budget 2018-19 News
NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Thursday hailed the Union Budget 2018.
In a statement issued, the foundation said that the Union Budget 2018 attempts to get closer to realising the dream for a Digital India by increasing digital intensity.
The Union Budget 2018-19 reflects the government`s commitment to digitalisation for the country`s development, IT industry`s apex body Nasscom said on Thursday.
PM's Economic Advisory Council chairman Bibek Debroy on Thursday welcomed the announcements made in the Union Budget 2018-19.
The proposals presented in the Union Budget today by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley lacked the roadmap for actual implementation, Maharashtra Congress president Ashok Chavan said on Thursday.
The PGIMER here has been alloted Rs 1,207.78 crore in the 2018-19 Budget, a release said here.
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said it is not possible to double farmers' income by 2022 until the agricultural growth is 12 per cent.
Telangana on Thursday expressed its disappointment over the meagre allocations made for the state in the Union Budget for 2018-19.
Goa CM Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said that he was glad that the state government`s universal health insurance scheme had been emulated by the Centre.
"Defeatist", "big letdown" and "rhetoric" was how the Congress and Left parties described the Union Budget 2018-19.
Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Thursday said the Union Budget gives priority to balanced development of rural and urban areas.
Arun Jaitley increased the allocation for education during 2018-19 by 6.68 percent from last year to Rs 85,000 crore.
In the 2017-18 budget, the total capex for the Culture Ministry was pegged at Rs 2,738 crore and Rs 2,666 crore was allocated.
Leading industrialists on Thursday expressed mixed reaction to the proposals in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the Union Budget 2018 saying that 'it is not a people friendly budget.
The gems and jewellery industry were disappointed that there was no announcement in reduction of import duty on bullion.
Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday called Modi government's budget defeatist and said there was nothing in it to boost private investment.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley did not provide any relief in the income tax rates for 2018-19. He however proposed to allow a standard deduction of Rs 40,000 in lieu of the present exemption in respect of transport allowance and reimbursement of miscellaneous medical expenses.
In the Union Budget 2018 speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday used the term 'government' the maximal number of times. The word 'crore' was the second most used word while 'India' stood third.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday raised the target of beneficiaries under Ujjwala scheme to 8 crore, besides proposing lowering female employees' provident fund contribution to 8 per cent for the first three years.
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