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Prime Minister Modi will also hold discussions on the Union Budget and the proposals made for taxpayers.

Private payroll gains in the month earlier were revised down to 245,000 from the originally reported 298,000.  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet economists and senior government officials at NITI Aayog on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet economists and senior government officials on Monday

"It takes a lot of guts to do what our Prime Minister has done,” BJP leader Shaina NC told ANI.

To promote growth, the government could consider deviating from fiscal deficit path for the next financial year and focus more on public spending, suggested economists at the pre-Budget meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.  

Rajan said there is a need for "rigorous fundamentals" in economics based on blood, sweat, tears and toil.

Taking a jibe at some economists and commentators, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said they change their views according to the evolving situation as it happened in the domestic capital market Monday in the aftermath of the referendum in Greece.

Modi spoke of the government's recent initiatives, including the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, direct cash transfer of LPG subsidy, and Swachh Bharat.

In the first meeting of NITI Aayog on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took views of economists to boost growth, said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

They said that the 'base effect' was the main reason for the falling inflation, which stood at a much higher level a year ago.