'Will Facilitate Economic Participation of Women, Empower Dalits, Backward Classes': PM on Budget

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman scripted history by presenting her seventh consecutive budget in the Parliament today.

Reacting to the Union Budget 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called this budget one that promotes economic growth of the nation and that it empowers every section of the society.

'Union Budget 2024 Empowers Neo Middle Class': PM Modi

“This is a budget that will take the country's villages, poor and farmers on the path of prosperity. In the last 10 years, 25 crore people have come out of poverty. This budget is a budget for the continuation of the empowerment of the newly emerged, Neo Middle Class. This will give new strength to the middle class. It has come up with strong plans to empower the tribal society, Dalits and backward classes”, said PM Modi.

‘Budget Will Provide Opportunities to Youth, Facilitate Economic Participation of Women’

PM Modi said that this budget would facilitate the economic participation of women. “This is a budget that will provide countless new opportunities to the youth”, said PM Modi.

“We will together make India a global manufacturing hub. The MSME sector of the country is connected to the middle class. This sector provides maximum employment to the poor. This budget will give a new scale to education and skills”, he further said.

On tax and TDS rules, the Prime Minister said, “Many provisions have been made in this budget to make the defence sector self-reliant. The focus is also laid on the tourism sector in this budget. A decision has also been taken on the reduction of tax and TDS rules are also simplified. We are speeding development in the eastern region by the way of construction of highways and water and power projects.”

(Inputs from ANI)