Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her fourth Budget today, aimed at maintaining the world's fastest-growing economy tag for India.
In the beginning of her speech, Sitharaman expressed her empathy with those who had to bear the health and economic brunts of Covid-19.
She then went on to share the government's estimate of the country's economic growth in the current financial year, i.e., 2021-22. This number was 9.2 per cent.
The same number for the previous financial year, hardest hit by Covid-induced lockdowns, was a negative 7.3 per cent.
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