Budget 2024 wishlist: Simplify capital gains tax system, tax breathers to middle class, India Inc. tells Revenue Secretary

Budget 2024 wishlist: Simplify capital gains tax system, tax breathers to middle class, India Inc. tells Revenue Secretary

Full Budget 2024: The full Budget 2024 will be tabled next month. On Wednesday, Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the first Pre-Budget consultation meeting with leading economists. The meeting was attended by MoS for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, the Finance Secretary, and the Secretaries of the Departments of Economic Affairs, Revenue, … Read more

The ten big policy plays: Key economic initiatives India has seen under Modi from 2014 to 2024

The ten big policy plays: Key economic initiatives India has seen under Modi from 2014 to 2024

The goods and services tax, the bankruptcy code, PM-Kisan — key economic initiatives India has seen over the past 10 years. The last decade has also been marked by big social interventions, beginning with the financial inclusion drive launched soon after the NDA came to power in 2014. The results of these measures will serve … Read more

PM Modi releases over ₹16,000 crore to farmer beneficiaries in latest instalment under PM-KISAN

PM Modi releases over ₹16,000 crore to farmer beneficiaries in latest instalment under PM-KISAN

Prime Minister Narendra Modi | | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released the 13th instalment of over ₹16,000 crore, under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), through direct benefit transfer to more than eight crore beneficiaries. Under the scheme, eligible farmer families are provided ₹6,000 per year in three equal … Read more

PM Kisan Samman Nidhi: Eight lakh ‘ineligible’ Jan Dhan account holders received benefits

PM Kisan Samman Nidhi: Eight lakh ‘ineligible’ Jan Dhan account holders received benefits

(This story originally appeared in on Jun 29, 2021) In large-scale discrepancies unearthed in the distribution of benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi in UP, close to 7.8 lakh ‘ineligible’ Jan Dhan accounts were found to be receiving Rs 6,000 each in the state. Of these, 2.3 lakh were found to be businessmen, … Read more

PM releases 8th installment worth over Rs 20,000 cr to 9.5 cr farmers under PM-KISAN

PM releases 8th installment worth over Rs 20,000 cr to 9.5 cr farmers under PM-KISAN

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday released the eighth installment of over Rs 20,000 crore to more than 9.5 crore farmer beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme on Friday via video-conferencing. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, who was present on the occasion, said West bengal has joined the scheme with more … Read more

Centre pays Rs 1,364 crore to over 20 lakh undeserving beneficiaries under PM-KISAN

Centre pays Rs 1,364 crore to over 20 lakh undeserving beneficiaries under PM-KISAN

The government has paid Rs 1,364 crore to 20.48 lakh undeserving beneficiaries under its ambitious PM-KISAN scheme, a reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query by the Union Agriculture Ministry reveals. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sammann Nidhi (PM-KISAN) was launched by the Centre in 2019 and under the scheme, an income support of Rs 6,000 … Read more

After Mamata agrees to implement PM Kisan scheme, BJP promises to pay farmers arrears

After Mamata agrees to implement PM Kisan scheme, BJP promises to pay farmers arrears

Nandigram: BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Friday said that the saffron party, after voted to power in West Bengal, will ensure that each farmer of the state gets Rs 18,000 in arrears under the PM Kisan scheme. The assertion of Vijayvargiya, the BJP’s West Bengal in-charge, came days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee … Read more

Modi trying to mislead people with distorted facts: Mamata on PM-KISAN in Bengal

Modi trying to mislead people with distorted facts: Mamata on PM-KISAN in Bengal

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to mislead the people with half-truth and distorted facts over the non-implementation of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme in the state. She said the prime minister showed his apparent concern for the farmers through a televised address, instead of … Read more