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19th PM-Kisan tranche ensures relief for 97 million

Nearly 100 million farmers have received over 3.5 lakh crore since the scheme’s launch. (PTI PHOTO)
Published on Feb 25, 2025 07:28 AM IST

PM Kisan: 19th instalment to be issued today. See eKYC process, beneficiary list

PM Kisan: A farmer in a mustard field on the eve of Union Budget 2025 on the outskirts of Amritsar, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025.
Updated on Feb 24, 2025 12:26 PM IST

Govt recovers 335 crore availed of fraudulently under PM Kisan, Lok Sabha told

Proceeding of the Lok Sabha is underway during the Winter Session of Parliament on Thursday (SansadTV YouTube/ANI)
Published on Dec 05, 2024 09:16 PM IST

PM Modi releases 15th instalment of PM-KISAN, hits out at previous govts

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting celebrating the birth anniversary of freedom fighter Birsa Munda in Jharkhand’s Khunti on Wednesday. (ANI)
Updated on Nov 15, 2023 04:20 PM IST

The pandemic will change public life as we know it| Analysis

Several changes may usher in more egalitarian growth, driving investments the government should always have made and enabling a wider base of consumption
Updated on Apr 14, 2020 08:44 PM IST

In times of a lockdown, support migrant workers

The irony is migrant workers will be expected to return to cities as soon as the lockdown is over
Published on Mar 26, 2020 06:17 PM IST

Sitharaman unveils Rs 1.7 lakh crore package for poor amid Covid-19 crisis

Homeless and poor receive food at a government shelter in New Delhi.
Updated on Mar 26, 2020 08:29 PM IST

Covid-19: Draw up a new economic plan | HT Editorial

The government needs to, urgently, come up with a comprehensive coronavirus contingency economic plan — to keep businesses viable — including through tax relief and extension of deadlines on loan repayments, among other measures
Published on Mar 18, 2020 06:41 PM IST

15 lakh more Maharashtra farmers to benefit from PM-Kisan scheme

After the scheme was announced this February, in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, only 16.38 lakh farmers got the first instalment of 2,000 in February and March.
Updated on Jun 04, 2019 05:49 AM IST

Guaranteed employment is a good way to ensure minimum income in India

There is a case for studying how employment guarantee programmes such as the MGNREGA can be strengthened by ensuring livelihoods to those who are in the greatest need and focusing on creation of durable assets that are of value to the poor
Updated on Apr 08, 2019 08:09 AM IST

‘Big numbers, no depth’: SC/ST criticise budget

On Friday, acting finance minister Piyush Goyal announced a “substantial increase” in the allocation to SC and ST welfare – Rs 76,801 crore for SC and Rs 50,086 crore for ST.
Updated on Feb 03, 2019 03:16 PM IST

Need to strictly adhere to a fiscal roadmap from now on

A broker offers prayers as the announcement of the interim Union budget by finance minister Piyush Goyal plays on a screen, Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai, February 1, 2019
Published on Feb 01, 2019 08:42 PM IST

17 a day, an insult to farmers’: Rahul Gandhi slams PM Kisan scheme

Congress president Rahul Gandhi termed the PM Kisan scheme announced in the Budget 2019 as an insult to farmers.
Updated on Feb 01, 2019 04:20 PM IST

India to face challenges meeting fiscal deficit target: Moody’s analyst

India set a fiscal deficit target of 3.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) for the year ending March 2020, higher than a previous estimate, and also said it would breach the current year’s 3.3 percent deficit target.
Published on Feb 01, 2019 03:20 PM IST

Budget 2019: Assured income of 6000 for farmers announced

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presenting Budget 2019 in Parliament
Updated on Feb 01, 2019 02:15 PM IST

Budget 2019 highlights: Tax relief, mega pension plan for unorganised workers in poll year

Finance Minister outside Parliament on Friday.
Updated on Feb 01, 2019 05:34 PM IST

PM Modi may counter Rahul Gandhi’s income scheme with Universal Basic Income in budget

After Rahul Gandhi promising a minimum income guarantee scheme, PM Modi may be compelled to roll out a Universal Basic Income scheme for the poor (File Photo)
Updated on Jan 30, 2019 01:30 PM IST