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The allocation for Census Survey and Statistics has been slashed to ₹1,277.80 crore from ₹1,546.65 crore in 2023-24, a further indication that the Census exercise, which was to be initially completed in 2021, is not planned in the first quarter of the fiscal. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Union Home Ministry has been…
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A PSLV rocket carrying the X-Ray Polarimetry Satellite (XPoSat) lifts off from the Sriharikota spaceport, January 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI/ISRO With no major space missions slated for 2024, the Department of Space has recieved only a nominal hike of 4% in its allocation in the Interim Union Budget for 2024-25, from ₹12,545 crore…
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Higher education Budget allocation: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi main gate, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena In FY25, the government is expected to spend ₹47,619 crores on higher education. The allocation declined by ₹9,624 crore, when compared with the revised estimates for the year FY24. The reduction in overall spending on…
The Centre has allocated ₹1.68 lakh crore to NHAI in the interim Budget. File | Photo Credit: PTI After a massive jump in allocation every consecutive year in the recent past, this year’s budgetary allocation for the road sector saw a measly 2.7% increase. The Interim Budget set aside ₹2,78,000 crore for the Ministry of…
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A man watches FM Nirmala Sitharaman read her Budget speech at an electronic shop in Mumbai, on Feb. 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The Government will come out with a White Paper on the mismanagement of economy prior to 2014 with an aim to draw lessons. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA came to power…
The announcement in the Interim Budget 2024 of providing rooftop solar power generation to one crore households has come as a response to multiple guarantees of free power by different political parties in different States, including in Delhi and Punjab by the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress in others. | Photo Credit: AP Finance Minister…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the presentation of the Interim Budget 2024 in the Lok Sabha, at Parliament House in New Delhi, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi characterised the Interim Budget tabled on Thursday as “inclusive and innovative”, one that “carries the confidence of continuity”, a reference to…
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Image for representation only | Photo Credit: AP While presenting the interim budget for 2024, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a set of measures to boost the green economy and the blue economy Among other measures pertaining to finance and infrastructure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also announced some green initiatives and steps which will be…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman poses for photographs before presenting the Interim Budget 2024 in New Delhi on February 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar FM Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Interim Budget in the Lok Sabha today. Earlier in the morning, the Union Cabinet met and approved the Budget. Also Read |Budget 2024…
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Energy, mineral and cement corridor, a port connectivity corridor and a high traffic density corridor will be set up, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her Budget speech | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Touching upon measures that will be taken to expand India’s railway infrastructure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced three major railway economic corridors….
