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Rishi Sunak replaced the former chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid just weeks before the 2020 Budget. Since then, he has become a household name and has been key to the government’s financial response to the coronavirus pandemic, unveiling a raft of measures from a furlough scheme to the self-employed grants.
Budget 2021: Nirmala Sitharaman s Stress Test and Macroeconomic Challenges AheadÂ
Clarity and a plan relying on the actualisation (and not promise) of job-creation, along with higher wages for workers across sectors are the needs of the hour.
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Photo: Twitter/@nsitharaman
Economy20/Jan/2021
With less than two weeks left for the Union Budget to be presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the state of the Indian economy continues to be grim, even if a return to normalcy is around the corner.
Over the last year, the economy has battled three crises â a pandemic, an economic meltdown, and a deep erosion in social and public trust as articulated in a long-drawn-out protest by farmers against the new farm laws.