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Employment agenda gets a
push
NREGA, Bharat Nirman biggest gainers l Budget allocation for education schemes unchanged
New Delhi, February 16
The largely insipid Interim Budget of the UPA government ensures adequate, even heightened, budgetary allocation to its major flagship programmes affecting the “aam
aadmi.”
Extra Rs 4,000 cr for education
Minorities
Allocation
50 per cent for 90 identified dists
New Delhi, February 16
Unable to meet its minority development targets under the Prime Minister’s 15-point programme, the government has decided to spend half of the total budgetary allocation to the Minority Affairs Ministry on the overall development of 90 identified districts.
Paramilitary
forces also get big money
Whopping improvement in living standard, says Pranab
New Delhi, February 16
India has demonstrated the fastest ever improvement in living standards, claimed Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee, while presenting the Interim Budget 2009-10 in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
Investors take Rs 1 trillion
hit in a day
 Mumbai, February
16
Investors lost close to Rs 1 lakh crore on Monday as the market gave a thumbs-down to the interim Budget, which failed to provide any sops for key sectors.
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A poll-bound Congress-led UPA
government’s Interim Budget 2009-2010 concentrated on two major issues — ‘aam aadmi’ and national security.
The historical town of Jodhpur in
Rajsthan, hemmed in by desert, is about to be flooded, thanks to human interference with Nature.