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Jatiya Party to introduce ‘Pallibandhu Padak’
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6th February, 2021 07:35:46
Jatiya Party is going to introduce ‘Pallibandhu Padak’ (Award) in eight categories, marking its founder late HM Ershad’s 91st birth anniversary.
A panel styled, Pallibandhu Padak 2021 Committee’, has been formed making Jatiya Party presidium member SM Faisal Chisti its convener and former secretary MM Niaz Uddin member secretary to this end, said a party press release on Saturday.
Jatiya Party leaders Sunil Shuvo Roy, Saifuddin Ahmed Milon, ATU Taj Rahman, Solaiman Alam Seth, Shafiqul Islam Sentu, Rezaul Islam Bhuiyan and Liaquat Hossain Khoka have been made joint conveners of the committee.
The BSE Sensex, the 30-stock bellwether index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, zoomed 2,315 points - rising 5 per cent - on the day Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented Union Budget 2021/22. The buoyancy continued the next day too, indicating that the fine print also looked good to investors. Uncluttered and smart, is how Mumbai-based broking firm Anand Rathi described the Budget.
It has been quite some time since a Union Budget received such a resounding approval. In addition to markets, economists, corporates, bankers and experts tracking the Indian economy have responded positively to the budgetary proposals. Some are very enthusiastic, others are not, but very few are complaining about the prescriptions Sitharaman has for reviving the pandemic-hit Indian economy.
Increase in allocation to the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) to Rs 40,000 crore and doubling of Micro Irrigation Fund announced in the Budget will accelerate the progress of ongoing rural infrastructure projects, Nabard chairman G R Chintala said on Monday. While presenting the Budget 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, We are enhancing the allocation to the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund from Rs 30,000 crore to Rs 40,000 crore. She also announced to increase the corpus of the Micro Irrigation Fund by Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 10,000 crore. Both the funds are being created under the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard).
Highlights
Budget went paperless this time.
Budget session will be held in two phases Jan 29 to Feb 15 and March 8 to April 8.
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday proposed 10 percent hike in the farm loan disbursal target to Rs 16.5 lakh crore in the Union Budget 2021, and introduced an agri-infra and development cess of up to 100 percent to create post-harvest infrastructure for improving farmers income. In a slew of steps to support the Agriculture Sector Sitharaman announced 9 measures for Agriculture Sector.
FM Sitharaman proposed to extend SWAMITVA Scheme to all States/UTs.
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had launched SWAMITVA Scheme to bring transparency in property ownership in villages. Under the Scheme, a record of rights is being given to property owners in villages. Up till now, about 1.80 lakh property-owners in 1,241 villages have been provided cards.