Budget 2022-23 Highlights: Jobs for 60 lakh people in five years!!

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced the budget in the Lok Sabha. Speaking on the budget speech, Nirmala said, "We are at the forefront of product-based incentives."

The PM said the infrastructure was provided through the Kinetic Energy Scheme. For infrastructure in the transport sector, Rs. Nirmala said Rs 20,000 crore has been allocated. It plans to create 60 lakh jobs in the next five years. She said India was recovering fast after the Covid epidemic. She said that India is ahead in the growth rate. The budget is designed with the next 25 years in mind.

Also Read: Highlights of the Economic Survey 2021-22

Budget 2022-23 Highlights: For the education sector

• States will be encouraged to revise syllabi of agricultural universities to meet needs of natural, zero-budget & organic farming, modern-day agriculture
• One class, one TV channel' program of PM eVIDYA will be expanded from 12 to 200 TV channels.
• This will enable all states to provide supplementary education in regional languages for classes 1 to 12.

Also Read:

Weekly Current Affairs (Persons) Bit Bank: Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of the ISRO, to replace K. Sivan?

Weekly Current Affairs (Science & Technology) Bit Bank: Which state topped in increase in forest cover in 2021?

Published date : 01 Feb 2022 01:20PM