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Key takeaways from interim Budget 2024-25 in charts

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India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024.  | Photo Credit: Bloomberg The Finance Minister presented her sixth budget today. Her announcements ranged from railways, tourism, healthcare, technology, aviation, green energy, aquaculture, housing, and more. With regards to taxation, no changes were announced to…

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Budget for Census slashed, population count may not take place in first quarter

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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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WHO applauds extension of healthcare coverage to ASHA, anganwadi workers and helpers

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Given that Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers, anganwadi workers, and helpers are at the forefront of health care delivery at the grassroots level, the World Health Organization (WHO) has applauded February 1 Union Budget announcement on extending healthcare coverage to them under Ayushman Bharat. Roderico H. Ofrin, WHO’s representative in India, said that various…

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2024 Interim Budget | Space gets nominal hike, likely boost for spaceflight start-ups

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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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Budget 2024 | Nirmala Sitharaman delivers her shortest Budget speech

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People watch the live budget speech telecast from Parliament House, as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2024 on February 01, 2024. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 presented her sixth consecutive Budget with a speech lasting 56 minutes, her shortest-ever. Dressed in a turquoise-coloured embroidered…

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Interim Budget 2024 | Govt to come out with White Paper on mismanagement of economy prior to 2014, says Sitharaman

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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…

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Where does the money come from and where is it allocated?

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People watch Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presenting the Interim Budget 2024 in Parliament, at a television showroom in Kolkata, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Interim Budget in the Lok Sabha today. In her Budget speech she spoke of the profound transformation undergone by the Indian…

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Analysis | Nirmala Sitharaman’s interim Budget reveals BJP’s confidence in comeback

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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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Budget 2024 | Branding and marketing of iconic tourist destinations to push tourism

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes a morning stroll on one of the pristine beaches, in Lakshadweep. File. | Photo Credit: ANI The Centre will work with States for the comprehensive development of iconic tourist centres and their branding and marketing at a global scale in order to promote Indian tourist destinations within the country as…

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