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This is not an interim budget. What Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presented Friday has no resemblance with any of the previous three interim budgets presented by his predecessors — Jaswant Singh in 2004, Pranab Mukherjee in 2009 and Palaniappan Chidambaram in 2014.
No interim budget in the past announced a new programme with as huge an annual expenditure outlay of Rs 75,000 crore as Mr Goyal’s scheme, Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), which will offer an annual income support of Rs 6,000 per year to all farmer families that have cultivable land up to two hectares.
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