Foreseeing a better quality of life in urban slums and rural India, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that infrastructure development and clearing backlog of defence procurement will be the government’s priorities for the future. He also noted that rural India development and improvement of healthcare and education would be the other priority areas.
Finance Minister further mentioned that some of the areas in the country are growing and some require support from the government for improving capacity like rural sector, adding that higher resources would help the government to spend more on infrastructure development.
Jaitley also underlined the efforts being taken by the government to maximise resources with lowering of the tax rate by following the theory of lower taxation higher compliance. Besides, he emphasized that in the last five years, there has not been a single incidence of increase in tax rate and rates in both direct and indirect taxes have been lowered.
While talking about Ayushman Bharat programme, he said 16 lakh people have benefited from this cashless insurance scheme of the government in the first four months of its launch and added that with this scheme suddenly 78 per cent of the population came under the health insurance cover.
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