Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the general budget for 2024-25. In this first budget of Modi 3.0, she outlines 9 key principles for a developed India. These principles include productivity, employment, social justice, urban development, energy security, infrastructure, and reforms.

These nine principles of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for a developed India are -

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1. Agriculture
2. Employment
3. Social Justice
4. Manufacturing and Services
5. Urban Development
6. Energy Security
7. Innovation
8. Research and Development
9. Next Generation Reforms

The Budget provides Rs 2.66 lakh crore for rural development.

“In this budget, we focus on employment, skilling, MSMEs and the middle class. Agriculture research will be transformed to focus on raising productivity and climate resilient varieties," said FM Sitharaman while presenting her seventh Budget.

In a major push to employment generation, the Finance Minister announced three new schemes.
She said the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana was extended by five years, benefiting more than 80 crore people in the country.

While presenting the Union Budget in the Lok Sabha, she said, "People of India have reposed their faith in the government led by PM Modi and re-elected it for a historic third term."

With the inputs of IANS