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SME Times News Bureau | 22 Dec, 2021
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday concluded a week-long
series of pre-budget consultation meetings with various stakeholders for
the upcoming Budget for FY23.
All held in virtual mode, the first meeting was held on December 15 with agri and allied industry members.
More
than 120 invitees representing seven stakeholder groups participated in
eight meetings during the period, a Ministry of Finance statement said.
The
stakeholder groups include representatives and experts from agriculture
and agro processing industry, industry, infrastructure and climate
change, financial sector and capital markets, services and trade, social
sector, trade union and labour organisations, and economists.
"The
stakeholder groups made several suggestions on various issues that
included increased R&D spending, infrastructure status for digital
services, incentives to hydrogen storage and fuel cell development,
rationalisation of income tax slabs, investments in online safety
measures etc., among others," the statement said.
Sitharaman
assured that suggestions will be carefully considered while preparing
the Budget document, which is slated to be tabled in Parliament on
February 1, 2022.
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