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Nearly 50,000 people have responded to four Twitter polls put out by the Union finance ministry’s official handle, in its effort to get ideas from the people for Budget 2017-18.
On January 6, 9 and 10, the ministry tweeted four multiple-choice questions, asking respondents to select sectors, demographic groups and schemes they wanted the government to focus on in the Budget. These four tweets have been retweeted or “liked” about 5,883 times till the filing of this story. The number is quite likely to increase — indicating more participation — as the polls close Friday.
Till Thursday evening, 23,500 people had responded
