{"id":8341,"date":"2020-02-01T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:13","slug":"major-highlights-union-budget-2020-for-aspirational-india-says-nirmala-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/major-highlights-union-budget-2020-for-aspirational-india-says-nirmala-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Major highlights: Union Budget 2020 for &#8220;aspirational India&#8221; says Nirmala Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Budget 2020 stating that it was a Budget for \u201caspirational India\u201d, and said that the \u201cfundamentals of the economy\u201d were strong. She also added that inflation was \u201cwell under control\u201d and\u00a0added that national security is the \u201ctop priority\u201d for the government.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the major highlights from the Union Budget 2020:<\/p>\n<p>*\u20b999,300 crore proposed for Education sector<\/p>\n<p>*\u20b922,000 crore for power and renewal energy sector<\/p>\n<p>*\u20b985,000 crore for welfare of Scheduled Castes &amp; Backward Classes<\/p>\n<p>*\u20b930,757 crore allocated for Jammu &amp; Kashmir<\/p>\n<p>*\u20b95,958 crore allocated for Ladakh<\/p>\n<p>*2000 kilometre of strategic highways to be built<\/p>\n<p>*Agri credit target for 2020 has been set at \u20b915 lakh crore<\/p>\n<p>*Special measures for 100 water distressed districts in the country<\/p>\n<p>*60 lakh new tax payers added<\/p>\n<p>*Deposit insurance coverage has been raised to \u20b95 lakh from \u20b91 lakh<\/p>\n<p>Sitharaman also said that the Central government was committed to doubling farmers\u2019 incomes by 2022, and proposed to end manual scavenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation well under control, said the Union Finance Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32,243,242],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-national-news","9":"tag-nirmala-sitharaman","10":"tag-union-budget-2020"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=8341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}