Budget 2024-25: Hope of relief on employment and inflation

Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the first full budget of the third term of the Modi government in Parliament. Finance Minister Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2024-25 for the seventh time in a row. Common people have great expectations from the budget. IANS sought the opinion of the common people on the country’s budget. K.N. Srivastava, a resident of Delhi, emphasizes on increasing the production sector and says, “The government should focus on employment. For that it is necessary to focus on the production sector, because only production can increase employment. This does not make much difference to senior citizens, because there are many schemes for them, but there is a need to increase the number of schemes for the unemployed. The government should focus on production. This will increase employment.” On the question of inflation, he says, “Inflation will be controlled automatically after the rains. This budget will be the budget of a completely developed India. Everyone will participate, the youth will get jobs, then India will automatically become developed.” Apart from this, the whole country is looking at this general budget with hopeful eyes. Apart from basic needs like food, clothing, shelter, common people also have great expectations from the Modi government on education, health, infrastructure. Let us tell you that the budget session of Parliament started on Monday. This second parliamentary session of the third term of the Modi government is likely to run till August 12. There will be 16 meetings during the period of 22 days in the session. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the first full budget of Modi Government 3.0 in the Parliament. This is her seventh consecutive budget.