Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents Union Budget for 2019-20 - Budget 2019 LIVE Updates
Budget 2019 LIVE Updates
►NRIs with Indian passports to get Aadhaar card on arrival
►National Sports Education Board to be set up under Khelo India scheme: Finance Minister
►Govt to streamline multiple labour laws into a set of four labour codes: FM
►Govt proposes setting up of exclusive TV channel for startups: FM
►PSU banks to get Rs 70,000 crore capital to boost credit: FM
►Govt to build 17 iconic sites to encourage arrival of tourists in India
►657 km of metro rail network has become operational across country: Finance Minister
►Govt on target to achieve Swachh Bharat mission by October this year: FM
►A Gandhi-pedia is being developed to sensitise youth about Mahatma Gandhi's ideas: FM
►Govt to bring a new national educational policy: FM
►A draft legislation for higher education commission of India to be presented: FM
►Rs 400 cr provided for world class institutions: FM
►10,000 new farmer producer organisations to be set up: Finance Minister
►30,000 km roads constructed under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna using green material, including plastic waste: FM
►We will invest widely in agriculture infrastructure; support private enterpnership in value addition in agri: FM
►100 new clusters will be set up in 2019-20 to enable 50,000 artisans to come into economic value chain: FM
►Swachch Bharat Abhiyan has achieved a resounding success; 9.6 cr toilets have been constructed since Oct 2014: FM
►Working towards ''Har Ghar Jal'' by 2024: FM
►NRI portfolio route to be merged with FPI for seamless investment in stock markets: Finance Minister
►India requires capital of about Rs 20 lakh crore every year: FM
►FPI investment limit increased from 24 per cent to sectoral FDI investment limits: FM
►Every single rural family, except those unwilling to take connection, will have an electricity, LPG connection by 2022: FM
►Govt proposes setting up 1.95 crore houses under Pradhan Mantari Awas Yojna (Rural): FM
►All weather road connectivity provided to 97 per cent of habitation: FM
►Govt to soon announce a package for power sector: Finance Minister
►Govt will create a payment platform for MSMEs for payment of bills: FM
►Govt allocated Rs 350 cr towards interest subvention for MSMEs for 2019-20: FM
►Rs 10,000 crore has been approved on Apr 1, 2019 to encourage faster adoption of electric vehicles:FM
►Pension to be provided to 3 crore retail traders under Pradhan Mantri Karmyogi Mandand scheme
►Govt to soon announce a package for power sector: Finance Minister
►Govt will create a payment platform for MSMEs for payment of bills: FM
►Govt allocated Rs 350 cr towards interest subvention for MSMEs for 2019-20: FM
►Rs 10,000 crore has been approved on Apr 1, 2019 to encourage faster adoption of electric vehicles:FM
►Pension to be provided to 3 crore retail traders under Pradhan Mantri Karmyogi Mandand scheme
►Public private parternship to be unleased to develop rail infrastructure: Finance Minister
►Blueprint for a national gas grid, water grid, i-ways and airports to be unveiled: FM
►Cargo movement in Ganga will increase 4 times in 4 years: FM
►Package for power sector tariff and structural reforms to be unveiled soon: FM
►Model tenancy law will be finalised and circulated to states. FM
►We need to invest in infra, digital economy and job creation in small and medium enterprises: FM
►Interim budget focused on 10-point vision to boost economy: FM
►India's economy will grow to become $3 trillion economy in current year; sixth largest in world: FM
►Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approves Budget for 2019-20
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Rahul Gandhi joins Haryana Congress leader's 'Sadbhav Yatra' in Gurugram
Gurugram (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday joined the 'Sadbhav Yatra' of Haryana Congress leader Brijendra Singh here.
Gandhi, who is the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, reached Gurugram in the evening and joined the yatra. He also walked some distance with Brijendra, state Congress chief Rao Narender Singh and other leaders.
Huge crowds had turned up for the occasion.
Later, Gandhi proceeded to the venue where he addressed a public gathering.
Leader of Opposition in Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda and other Congress leaders, including Randeep Singh Surjewala, B K Hariprasad, state Congress chief Rao Narender Singh, were also present.
Brijendra Singh had on Thursday said it is a matter of joy for them that Gandhi was joining the 'Sadbhav Yatra' in Gurugram-Badshahpur, "thereby strengthening the Indian National Congress' campaign for brotherhood and harmony".
The 'Sadbhav Yatra' began from Danoda village at Narwana in Jind on October 5, 2025, and has covered 85 of the 90 assembly segments in the state.
The foot march was started by Brijendra Singh, son of Congress veteran Birender Singh, to highlight several national and regional issues.
State Congress chief Rao Narender Singh had asked all party leaders to take part in Friday's event.
Days before his yatra began in October, Brijendra Singh, who narrowly lost the 2024 assembly polls from Jind's Uchana Kalan, accused the ruling BJP of playing "divisive politics" and said that "sadbhav" (harmony) has come under stress in the last decade.
Brijendra Singh was a sitting MP from Hisar for the BJP when he resigned ahead of the 2024 general election and switched over to the Congress. He also alleged that the saffron party creates a wedge in society to achieve its political purpose.
The 'padyatra' has so far covered 85 assembly constituencies in Haryana, traversing more than 2,700 kilometres.
Addressing the public gathering, Brijendra Singh said the yatra is inspired by Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra, where he took the party's vision and values directly to the people of the country.
Singh said the yatra has highlighted issues like "Vote Chori" (vote theft), unemployment, poor law and order situation, agrarian distress, and issues related to government employees, labourers and traders.
"Sadbhav (harmony) and bhaichara (brotherhood), which the BJP is attempting to weaken, are the messages of this yatra," he said, adding that its slogan is "Congress ka haath bhaichara ka saath".
"This yatra is a natural extension of the Bharat Jodo Yatra," Brijendra Singh said.
