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Interim Budget 10 takeaways: Cash for farmers, tax break for middle class

Relief measures and schemes were announced for farmers, unorganised sector employees, small businesses, and the salaried middle class in Interim Budget 2019

Interim Budget 2019
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BS Web Team New Delhi
The government poured extra money into support for farmers and a rural jobs programme, delivering on Friday its last budget before a general election due by May.

Here are key highlights from Finance Minister Piyush Goyal's interim budget speech.


1) Small and marginal farmers to get Rs 6,000 a year under a cash transfer scheme called the Pradhan Mantri Samman Nidhi. Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said it will benefit 120 million farmers and will be implemented from this financial year itself. He said Rs 20,000 crore has been provided for the current financial year and also announced an allocation