Nirmala Sitharaman speech highlights: Third tranche offers Support to farmers along with Governance Reforms
FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced the third tranche of the mammoth Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package today. The eleven measures announced today dealt with upgrading farm infrastructure, animal husbandry & fisheries and governance reforms. The finance minister said that the three tranches of stimulus announced so far is aimed at empowering people to help them become self-sufficient and earn livelihoods. The finance minister, flanked by MoS Anurag Thakur and secretaries in the finance ministry, started her daily rounds of press conference from Wednesday unveiling the Modi government's mega Covid stimulus of Rs 20 lakh crore. During her first interaction on Wednesday she focussed on the MSME sector, NBFCs and power discoms. India Inc welcomed the measures announced for the beleaguered MSME sector saying that they will mitigate the pain and help in saving jobs. The second set of relief measures were announced on Thursday particularly aimed at migrant wor...