The interim budget presented on Monday February 16, 2009 by the Acting-Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also the External Affairs Minister, is for the moment adequate and prudent. The vote-on-account was limited to the rural sector with significant increase in the defense allocations. Both are timely and non-controversial. The government is obviously keeping an [...]
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