Union Budget Money For States

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today termed misleading claims by opposition leaders that if any state is not named in the Budget speech, then it does not get any budgetary allocation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said there has been a 180 per cent increase in the allocation for Karnataka after the BJP-led NDA government came to power in the Centre. The money, however, has not been passed on by the state's Congress government, he said. He also outlined the party's plan for the state, which includes a suburban railway fo...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting of his council of ministers today to brief them ahead of a seven-hour debate on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha on the government's mega reform, the Goods and Services Tax. Four bills crucial to the implementation of GST will be passed at the end the debate; they were introduced in the lower house yester...

Seeking to dispel the notion of the Budget being "pro-rich", Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said on Thursday that it was a "reformist" and "landmark" Budget which has something for all.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today termed misleading claims by opposition leaders that if any state is not named in the Budget speech, then it does not get any budgetary allocation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said there has been a 180 per cent increase in the allocation for Karnataka after the BJP-led NDA government came to power in the Centre. The money, however, has not been passed on by the state's Congress government, he said. He also outlined the party's plan for the state, which includes a suburban railway fo...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting of his council of ministers today to brief them ahead of a seven-hour debate on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha on the government's mega reform, the Goods and Services Tax. Four bills crucial to the implementation of GST will be passed at the end the debate; they were introduced in the lower house yester...

Seeking to dispel the notion of the Budget being "pro-rich", Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said on Thursday that it was a "reformist" and "landmark" Budget which has something for all.