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Budget 2019 aims at boosting social infra for marginalised sections

Although the expenditure on centrally sponsored schemes is marginally higher than last year by 7.5 per cent, the interim Budget introduced several new programmes and enhanced allocations for many

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Last Updated : Feb 01 2019 | 8:28 PM IST

In an attempt to appease all sections of society months before the general elections, the interim Budget of the Bharatiya Janata Party government aimed at boosting social infrastructure and sops for marginalised sections.

“With this comprehensive 10-dimensional vision, we will create an India where poverty, malnutrition, littering and illiteracy would be a matter of the past. India would be a modern, technology-driven, high growth, equitable and transparent society,” Piyush Goyal said while presenting a 10-year vision under the Union Budget 2019-20 (I).

Although the expenditure on centrally sponsored schemes is marginally higher than last year by 7.5 per cent, the

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