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'Govt ignored poor, jobless, MSMEs in Budget'
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SME Times News Bureau | 11 Feb, 2021
Former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Thursday that the
Union government had ignored the poor, unemployed and the MSME sector in
the Budget proposals for 2021-22.
"The most deserving were left
to their fate -- the poor, farmers, migrant workers, MSME sector, middle
class, and the unemployed," he said while speaking on the Budget in the
Rajya Sabha.
He said that the Congress "rejected" the Budget
since there was nothing in it for the poor. Everybody expected it but
cash transfers to the poor was not done, he added.
Chidambaram
said that there was no mention of the defence sector in the Budget
either and the numbers predicted therein were not correct.
"The
Union Finance Minister did not mention defence in her speech, which is
unprecedented. The budgetary allocation for defence in 2021-22 is Rs
3,47,088 crore as against Revised Estimates of Rs 343,822 crore in the
current year, an increase of just Rs 3,266 crore," the former Union
Minister added.
Congress leader Kapil Sibal had on Wednesday
initiated the Budget debate and alleged that the government was giving
away its assets to four-five big boys.
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