NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will kick start the customary pre-budget consultation exercise with stakeholders from Wednesday by holding the first such meeting with experts of agriculture and agro-processing industry. She will be seeking inputs from various stakeholders, including industry bodies, farmer organisations and economists for reviving consumption and boosting growth hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. The growth this year is expected to be in the double-digit during the current fiscal. The RBI in its latest bi-monthly monetary policy review pegged a GDP growth of 9.5 per cent in 2021-22. The government has projected a fiscal deficit of 6.8 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP). “Finance Minister Smt. @nsitharaman will start her pre-budget consultations with different stakeholder Groups from tomorrow, 15th Dec 2021 in New Delhi in connection with the forthcoming General Budget 2022-23. The meetings will be held virtually,” the finance ministry said in a tweet. The Budget 2022-23 is likely to be presented on February 1 during the first half of the Parliament ‘s budget session which usually begins in the last week of January every year. “Finance minister Smt @nsitharaman will be holding her 1st pre-budget consultations with experts of Agriculture and Agro-processing industry… Read full this story
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