Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2023, where she announced that the country's economy is on the right track despite challenges. The FM, in her one-hour twenty-six-minute speech, also said that the economy is expected to grow 7 per cent this fiscal.
Lacking the poems and frills of last year's speech, this year, major shakeups came to income tax slabs and there were announcements about how India can achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2070. Sitharaman's speech was also not without its moments of light-heartedness, as the Finance Minister made a gaffe, saying 'old political vehicles' should be replaced, wherein she meant to say 'old polluting vehicles'.
Here's the full text of Sitharaman's speech for Budget 2023.
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