ENA Economy 2019-02-01 05:55:04 <p>Union minister Piyush Goyal is reading out the contents of the Budget 2019 in parliament. This is the last Interim Budget of the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi before the Lok Sabha elections due by May. </p> <p> --- Over 90 percent of the country has been covered under sanitation coverage. People have made this a social revolution and i thank people of the country</p> <p> --- Good to see the government take credit for the Asset Quality Review and other tough bad loan recognition measures initiated by the RBI governor, Rahguram Rajan, whom the government loathed</p> <p> --- We have recovered Rs 3 lakh crore through Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code<br /> --- Number of measures implemented to ensure clean banking, a resolution friendly mechanism has been instituted for recovery of non-performing loans<br /> --- The period of 2008 to 2014 will be remembered as a period of aggressive credit growth<br /> --- Fiscal deficit has been brought down to 3.4% in the revised estimate of 2018-19: Piyush Goyal<br /> --- Pace of construction of rural roads has been tripled under our tenure<br /> --- 1,70,000 crore spent for bringing food at affordable rates to poor people<br /> ---- Efforts taken to bring full representation for economically weak backward classes, by giving them reservation in jobs and education</p> 21938 https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/economy/key-highlights-from-budget-speech 2019-02-01 05:55:04 knnindia.co.in