Budget 2009
The finance minister on Monday outlined plans to speed infrastructure development and unveiled increased spending for farmers and the poor in the first budget since the Congress-led government was re-elected convincingly in May.
Following are the highlights from the budget speech:
* "The first challenge is to return the GDP growth rate of 9 percent per annum at the earliest."
* "The second challenge is to deepen and broaden the agenda for inclusive development."
* "There are signs of revival in domestic industry and foreign investors have also returned to Indian markets in the last couple of months."
* "It is possible that the two worst quarters since the global financial meltdown in September 2008 are behind us."
* "While the global financial condition has shown improvement over the recent month, uncertainty relating to the revival of the global economy remains. We cannot, therefore, afford to drop our guard.
* "We have to continue our efforts to provide further stimulus to the economy."
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Source: in.reuters.com
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