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In her Budget speech that lasted for around 1 hour and 45 minutes, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman doled out enormous amounts for railways, roadways, health care, education as well as the agriculture sector. Besides, the finance minister laid out a new import structure along with proposals for a conducive environment to usher in investments into FinTech, insurance and Start-ups. Further, the minister set aside Rs 20,000 crore for public sector bank re-capitalisation and gave a push to digital payments and research in Artificial Intelligence. Business Standard's Shrimi Choudhary analyses the key announcements made by the finance minister in this video.
In her Budget speech that lasted for around 1 hour and 45 minutes, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman doled out enormous amounts for railways, roadways, health care, education as well as the agriculture sector. Besides, the finance minister laid out a new import structure along with proposals for a conducive environment to usher in investments into FinTech, insurance and Start-ups. Further, the minister set aside Rs 20,000 crore for public sector bank re-capitalisation and gave a push to digital payments and research in Artificial Intelligence. Business Standard's Shrimi Choudhary analyses the key announcements made by the finance minister in this video.