By 2047, the government wants to have developed India, according to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remarks on Thursday.

Sitharaman added, “Minimum support prices for ‘Annadata’ (farmers) have been increased periodically and appropriately” while presenting the interim Budget 2024–25.

She claimed that social justice is a useful and essential model for the government.

She stated that the government is concentrating on resolving systemic disparities and that the goal is to achieve results in order to bring about socio-economic transformation.

“We focus on outcomes and not outlays,” Sitharaman said.

Poor, women, youth and farmers are four castes for the government, she added.

The FM in her budget speech stated that Indian economy has witnessed profound transformation in last 10 years.

The FM emphasised that in 2014, the country was facing enormous challenges, the government overcame those challenges and undertook structural reforms, “Pro people reforms were undertaken, conditions for jobs and entrepreneurship were set in, fruits of development started reaching people at scale, country got a sense of new purpose and hope,” she added.

(With inputs from PTI)

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Budget 2024: Government working to make India developed nation by 2024: FM Sitharaman