Highlights of Budget 2024

 

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget 2024 in the new parliament building for the first time today. This is the interim budget before the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Interim budgets are usually less likely to make major announcements. But the first phase of the Narendra Modi government at the Center made several big announcements in the interim budget to benefit the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. Experts believe that BJP may walk the same path this time too. All LIVE UPDATES of Modi Govt's 10th Budget:

11.43 am: Finance Minister's emphasis on tourism in Lakshadweep. Along with the assurance of developing spiritual tourism across the country.

 

11.40 am: Three special rail corridors are proposed in the budget.

 

11 o'clock 40: There are 83 lakh SHGs in the country. Empowering women. As a result, one crore women have become self-reliant.

 

11. 36: The Center has increased spending in infrastructure and capital sectors in a single push. 3 percent of GDP. Center to launch new project to build self-reliant India in defence.

 

11.34: Center keen to reduce edible oil prices. For self-reliance, the country will plant high-quality seeds to get extra oil from mustard, sunflower seeds

 

11.30: PM Awas Yojana again for the middle class. 2 crore houses will be built in the next 5 years.

 

11.28: This time Asha and Anganwadi workers also belong to Ayushmana India.

 

11.21: Nirmala mentions Ram Mandir at the beginning of the budget presentation. He said that the Prime Minister inaugurated the new project after the inauguration of Ram Mandir. Where solar power benefits 1 crore houses. The center will arrange to install solar panels on the roof of the house. 300 units of free electricity every month to 1 crore families.

 

11.20: War changed the definition of globalization. A new equation has emerged in the post-Covid world. Product transportation system or supply chain has been hit. Despite all these obstacles, India has progressed. Guided the world in solving problems. India chaired the G20 summit. The development of economic corridors between Europe, the Middle East and India paints a picture of a developed India, claims Nirmala.

 

 11.18 am: One country one tax system has been implemented across the country. The implementation of GST has increased the revenue. Finance Minister's demand.

11.05 am: Women, youth, farmers and poor will be given importance in this budget. Money has been paid directly into the bank accounts of lakhs of people under the Prime Minister's Jandhan Yojana.

 

11.00 am: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the budget in Parliament. After 'Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas', the main mantra of the budget this year is 'Sarvastare Bikash and Social Justice'.

 

10.38 am: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's 'style statement' is in focus on Budget Day as every time. This time she caught the eye in blue and cream color tasar saree. There is kantha stitch work all over the saree. Generally, this type of saree is made in Bengal-Orissa-Bangladesh.

 

10.27 am: Cabinet meeting begins before presentation of interim budget. There is Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

 

10.15 am: Income tax burden will be reduced in interim budget? Currently there are two tax structures 2022-23 and 2023-24. Income tax payers can choose any one tax structure as per the Central rules. In this situation, how much income tax exemption? Ordinary people are waiting for the answer on a rainy day in the capital.