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Modi keeps promise to farmers, budget on July 5
It will be the first budget of the Modi government in its second term and will be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
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The first session of the 17th Lok Sabha will be held from June 17 to July 26, with the regular budget to be presented on July 5, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday.
The dates of the session were decided in the first cabinet meeting of the Narendra Modi government.
Addressing a press conference after the meeting, Javadekar said the first two days of the session will be devoted to swearing-in of the newly elected MPs while the Lok Sabha speaker will be elected on June 19. The President’s address to the joint sitting of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will take place on June 20, he said.
The economic survey will be tabled on July 4 followed by the presentation of the budget on the next day, on July 5. The session will have a total of 30 sittings.
It will be the first budget of the Modi government in its second term and will be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
The interim budget for the year 2019-20 was presented by then Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on February 1.
Day 1 of cabinet sees big moves for farmers, traders
Prime Minister Modi said the newly-sworn in government took four major decisions related to farmers’ and traders welfare in the first meeting of the Union Cabinet. The BJP had promised these measures in its election manifesto. He said the decisions will enhance dignity and empowerment of several Indians.“People first, people always. Glad that path-breaking decisions were taken in the cabinet, the first in this tenure,” Modi tweeted after the meeting of the cabinet.
The government on Friday decided to extend the PM-KISAN scheme to all 14.5 crore farmers in the country costing Rs 87,000 crore a year and also announced over Rs 10,000 crore pension scheme for five crore farmers, thereby fulfilling the BJP’s poll promise.
The Cabinet also cleared the pension scheme for traders. Three crore retail traders and shopkeepers will benefit from the scheme.
CABINET MINISTERS & PROFILES
Narendra Modi - Prime Minister, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
Nitin Gadkari - Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
DV Sadananda Gowda - Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers
Ramvilas Paswan - Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Narendra Singh Tomar - Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development and Minister of Panchayati Raj
Ravi Shankar Prasad - Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Minister of Food Processing Industries
Thaawar Chand Gehlot - Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ - Minister of Human Resource Development
Arjun Munda - Minister of Tribal Affairs
Smriti Irani - Minister of Women and Child Development and Minister of Textiles
Dr Harsh Vardhan - Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences
Prakash Javadekar - Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Piyush Goyal - Minister of Railways and Minister of Commerce and Industry
Dharmendra Pradhan - Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - Minister of Minority Affairs
Pralhad Joshi - Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal and Minister of Mines
Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey - Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Arvind Ganpat Sawant - Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise
Giriraj Singh - Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat - Minister of Jal Shakti
THE BIG FOUR
Amit Shah
BJP President Amit Shah was on Friday named the new Home Minister succeeding Rajnath Singh. With the induction of Shah, who helped craft his party’s recent landslide Lok Sabha poll victory, Shah figures in the all-powerful CCS which is chaired by Prime Minister Modi. The CCS is the final decision-making body on matters related to country’s security, including defence policy and internal security. A confidant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for over two-and-a-half decades, Shah was also a trusted minister in the Gujarat government headed by Modi as Chief Minister between 2001-14. He held portfolios, including Home, Transport and Law and Justice in the state. Shah also made his Lok Sabha debut in 2019 polls, having won with more than five lakh votes from Gandhinagar.
Rajnath Singh
As India’s new Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh’s most crucial challenge will be to speed up the long-delayed modernisation of the three services besides ensuring overall coherence in their combat readiness. His other challenge will be to ensure peace and tranquillity along the frontier with China while developing required military infrastructure to deal with any possible Chinese hostility. As he takes charge of the ministry just three months after India carried out air strikes on a terrorist training camp in Balakot, it is expected that he will continue with the policy of hot pursuit in dealing with cross border terrorism. Containing infiltration of terrorists into J&K will be a key focus area. The government has been focusing on domestic defence production and Singh will have to carry forward big-ticket reform initiatives, including implementing the ambitious strategic partnership model.
Nirmala Sitharaman
Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday broke the glass ceiling again as she became the first full-time woman Finance Minister, who will present Modi 2.0 government’s maiden Budget that should look to take out the country from slowing growth, create jobs, attract investments and tackle banking sector woes. Before she took charge of the Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, she drove to the official residence of her predecessor Arun Jaitley, who had opted out of the second term of Modi government on health grounds. Prior to this, Indira Gandhi, as Prime Minister, held additional charge of Finance Ministry in 1970-71. Born on August 18, 1959, in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, Sitharaman is an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University and London School of Economics. She did her Masters in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
S Jaishankar
Former foreign secretary S Jaishankar was given charge of the External Affairs ministry on Friday, the first career diplomat to handle the key portfolio. Considered an expert on China and the US, the new External Affairs minister’s moves will be keenly watched to see whether he brings any changes in India’s approach in dealing with a hostile Pakistan. Jaishankar, who takes charge of the ministry nearly 16 months after he retired as foreign secretary, will also have to deal with overall expectations of expanding India’s global influence and stature, particularly in key multilateral forums like G-20, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and BRICS. A major focus under his leadership is likely to be on further boosting India’s trade and defence ties with the US, Russia, France, Japan and the European Union as well as with neighbouring countries.
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