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Nirmala Sitharaman, India s finance minister, gestures as she speaks during a news conference in New Delhi, India, on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021.
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The Union government has finally stepped on the gas when it comes to spending. But after a temporary splurge in the rest of this fiscal year, the finance ministry will tighten its purse strings to bring down debt levels, the budget numbers suggest
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Even as countries across the world raised spending aggressively to counter the economic impact of the covid-19 pandemic, India had remained an outlier. Throughout the pandemic, the finance ministry has argued for small doses of incremental spending to sustain the economic recovery rather than a big-bang boost. The Union budget on Monday marked a shift in fiscal stance for the first time, but only a partial one.
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The Union government’s expenditure in the COVID-hit fiscal year 2020-21 would likely be 13 percent higher than budgeted due to increased spending on livelihood schemes, direct benefit cash transfers, free rations and fertiliser subsidies. However, spending on key programmes such as the ones meant for child health and welfare, education, sanitation and rural infrastructure suffered big cuts.
Overall, the Union government is set to spend Rs 34.50 lakh crore in the current fiscal against the budgeted Rs 30.42 lakh crore, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced while presenting the budget proposals for the fiscal year 2021-22.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
FM Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget 2021 speech, which ran into 17,031 words, holds several new ideas to get the economy going again. Though, it could have done without higher import duties. Here’s a one-stop shop for the most important details of the Budget.
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FM Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget 2021 speech, which ran into 17,031 words, holds several new ideas to get the economy going again. Though, it could have done without higher import duties. Here’s a one-stop shop for the most important details of the Budget.
Budget 2021 | Expenditure on MGNREGS and rural development falls, rises marginally for education and social welfare
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Allocation as a % of the total expenditure for higher education and school education recorded marginal increases for FY22
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Hard at work: Workers engaged in desilting a dry pond under the MGNREGA scheme in Haryana. | Photo Credit:
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Allocation as a % of the total expenditure for higher education and school education recorded marginal increases for FY22
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), which has been described as the lifeline of rural India during the lockdown, did not find a mention in the Finance Minister s Budget speech on February 1, 2021. The scheme has been allocated Rs. 73,000 crore for FY22 which is lower than the revised estimates of FY21 which stood at Rs 1,11,500 crore.
Budget 2021: Here’s what to expect IANS
New Delhi: Amid the coronavirus pandemic when the pace of manufacturing and services sector came to a grinding halt, agriculture and allied sectors in India have picked up pace as the country saw the strength of the farm sector.
The government also took care of a large population of the country related to agriculture and farming and enacted new laws to intensify the winds of improvement in the agricultural sector. The Budget 2021-22 is going to be presented in Parliament Monday, amid wrangling over agricultural reform.
In such a situation, it is expected that the Modi government, which claims to give priority to the progress of villages, the poor and farmers, will also give priority to agriculture and rural development in the upcoming Budget.