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Subsidies Need Not Be Cut For Fiscal Discipline: Nirmala Sitharaman To NDTV Profit In First Budget Interview
The government took price rise pressure off farmers' shoulders, Sitharaman told NDTV Profit in her first interview after the interim budget 2024.
02 Feb 2024, 04:15 PM IST 
(Source: NDTV Profit)
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that subsidies need not be cut for fiscal discipline, emphasising that they are not a substitute to one another. The government took off all the pressure of price rise from the farmers' shoulders, Sitharaman told NDTV Profit's Sanjay Pugalia in an exclusive and the first interview to a TV news channel after Budget 2024."Our initiatives are not about populism or entitlement but of empowerment,...
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