Tag: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Natural farming will be promoted along the Ganga corridor, the Finance Minister said.

The PLI scheme has the potential for additional production of Rs 30 lakh crore worth products during the next five years, she added.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the Union Budget on Tuesday said that India is set to clock growth rate of 9.2 per cent, which could be the highest in the world in the current fiscal.

Among 103 towns in Odisha, only a dozen passed the test of the geo-spatial and cartographic way of determining the growth in economic activity and development   

The Economic Survey 2021-22, details the state of different sectors of the economy as well as reforms that should be undertaken to accelerate growth.

As per Deloitte, the Union Budget 202-23 may introduce additional deduction towards “work from home

Recently, the Union Finance Minister has said that the upcoming Budget will be of a kind never seen before. This drops the big clue.

In thier joint statement, Sitharaman and Yellen stressed "the importance of fighting financial crimes and on the effective implementation of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards to protect our financial systems from abuse".

Finance Minister Nirmala is scheduled to meet heads of public sector banks (PSBs) on August 25 to review financial performance of the lenders and progress made by them to support the economy battered by COVID-19 pandemic.

The Centre announced eight economic relief measures for India Inc, state governments as well as microfinance credit users along with Rs 1.1 lakh crore loan guarantee scheme for Covid-affected sectors.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman discussed opportunities in India for growth and investment on the back of the reform measures taken by government, during a global investors roundtable organised by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF).

New Delhi: Hit hard by the 5-year low GDP growth and a 45-year high unemployment rate of 6.1 per cent, the newly formed Modi government swung into action and on Wednesday, as it formed two new cabinet committees to check the declining trend in growth and employment and spur demand as well as consumption. A […]

An increase in the minimum pay against the recommendation of the 7th Pay Commission has been one of the demands of the Central government employees since long. While the CG employees continue to wait for the hike, government employees of Andhra Pradesh have got something to cheer about. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on […]

New Delhi: As the new Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget for the fiscal 2019-20 on July 5, the real estate players want the Budget document to feature steps to improve the liquidity situation with a proposal to re-introduce Input Tax Credit (ITC) for under-construction properties. In their pre-Budget memorandum, the real estate […]

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today chaired the Pre-Budget Consultation Meeting in New Delhi attended by the Finance Ministers of States and Union Territories and the senior officials of the Ministry of Finance and State governments among others. In her opening remarks at the Pre-Budget Consultation Meeting, the Finance Minister said, “Unprecedented level […]