PM focuses on tourism, skills to boost jobs

Economists bat for cut in income tax rates and people-friendly Budget

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid emphasis on innovation in the tourism sector and skill development to boost employment generation.

The dominant view at a day-long brainstorming session for top policy makers and economists at the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog was the Budget for 2017-18 should be friendly to citizens and taxpayers. 

Modi said Indians, in general, don’t want to evade taxes but they want proper utilisation of their hard-earned money given to the government as taxes. 

He said people talk of demographic dividends but he wanted to understand from economists as to how could that