Maintaining growth momentum the main idea behind Budget preparation: FM

Sitharaman said she was clear that the Budget had to keep the growth momentum intact, and even Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on board with it

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the main idea behind preparing this year's Budget was to maintain the growth momentum but appeared to accept that the private sector was waiting to see how the technology disruption underway will play out in the immediate future.

In an interview with The Indian Express, a day after presenting her fifth Budget, Sitharaman said the transition happening right now is "unlike any previous decade," and it will have an impact for the next 100 years. So the private sector is trying to invest in things that take them that far, she said.