Kamal Sandesh English Edition – July 20, 2019

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Here we are presenting the key highlights of the
Union Budget 2019-20 for the benefit of our esteemed
readers:

Key hiGhliGhts of union

BudGet 2019-

10-Point Vision for the decade

• Building Team India with Jan Bhagidari: Minimum
  Government Maximum Governance.


• Achieving green Mother Earth and Blue Skies
  through a pollution-free India.


• Making Digital India reach every sector of the
  economy.
  
  
  • Launching Gaganyan, Chandrayan, other Space
    and Satellite programmes.
  
  
  • Building physical and social infrastructure.
  
  
  • Water, water management, clean rivers.
  
  
  • Blue Economy.
  
  
  • Self-sufficiency and export of food-grains, pulses,
    oilseeds, fruits and vegetables.
  
  
  • Achieving a healthy society via Ayushman Bharat,
    well-nourished women & children, safety of
    citizens.
  
  
  • Emphasis on MSMEs, Start-ups, defence
    manufacturing, automobiles, electronics, fabs
    and batteries, and medical devices under Make
    in India.
  
  
  
  

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi described the Union
Budget as citizen friendly, development friendly and
future oriented, and one which will empower the poor and
provide better future to the youth.
Shri Modi said the first Budget of his second term is
for a “New India”.
Terming the Budget a “green budget”, he said it
focuses on the environment and pitches for green and
clean energy. In a televised address after the Union Budget
was tabled in Parliament, Shri Modi said the policies of the
government will empower the downtrodden and turn them
into a power house for the development of the country.
He said, “I want to congratulate Nirmala Sitharaman
for the citizen-friendly, development-friendly and future-
oriented Budget. It will make the nation Samrudh and
make the people Samarth ”.
“With this Budget, the poor will be strengthened and
youth will get a better tomorrow. The middle class will
progress with this Budget and development work will
expedite even more. The tax structure will be simplified
and infrastructure will modernize. In the last five years, the
country has left behind the atmosphere of depression. It
has come out of that atmosphere. Today, it is filled with
confidence... Today, in people’s lives, there are new
desires and many expectations. This Budget is giving
an assurance to the nation, that these [desires and
expectations] can be fulfilled. This is a Budget of hope

and expectations,” he stated.

The Budget would boost the country’s development

in the 21st century. It had a road map to transform the

agriculture sector. It would help in fulfilling the commitments

made for the 75th Independence Day in 2022. It had outlined

new initiatives for structural reforms in the agriculture sector

by investing in rural infrastructure and opportunities for jobs

in villages, he stressed.

“In the last five years, our government took various

steps to empower farmers, poor people, Dalits and

others. In the next five years, this empowerment will now

make them the country’s powerhouse. The country will get

the energy of becoming the $5 trillion economy through

this powerhouse,” he observed.

citizen, development fRiendly, futuRe oRiented and

BudGet foR ‘new india’: pm

union BudGet 2019-