Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday told the Lok Sabha that economic revival can be achieved in the country, reported The Hindu.
“We have actually managed to bend the [coronavirus pandemic] curve and the revival of the economy can be achieved,” she said. “I want to highlight stimulus plus reform. The situation created by the pandemic did not deter us from attempting reforms.”
“9.67% growth is seen in the allocation to core health,” she said. Sitharaman took a jibe at the Congress, saying that the party should take the credit for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and also for the way it was missed by their cronies, a reference to close relations with capitalists.
“The Congress has two tendencies – one, to give birth to schemes like MGNREGA [Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act] and allocate money, and two, to keep the funds unutilised,” she claimed. “The money is also diverted to cronies.”
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