Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the much-awaited budget today (February 1, 2020). This budget is considered to be very important in the year of the weakest growth of the last decade. All the hopes including a reduction in tax slab, relief package for farmers, optimizing the business environment are from this budget. Earlier on Friday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the economic survey.

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On this matter, the Finance Minister said, 'Our PM wants that every district should become an export hub from the point of view of exports. E-Market Place is helping with this. About 2.5 lakh vendors are associated with it. 27 thousand crore rupees will be given for this.

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The government has put a lot of emphasis on infrastructure in this budget. Nirmala Sitharaman said, 'PM Modi has said that there will be an investment of Rs 100 lakh crore in the next five years on infrastructure. There will be an investment in areas such as housing, clean water, healthcare, educational institutions, railway stations, airports, warehousing, irrigation.

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The Finance Minister said that air traffic in India is increasing faster than the world average. Therefore, more than 100 new airports will be built. Rs 1.7 lakh crore will be spent on transport infrastructure in 2020-21.