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If forcing the private sector to reserve jobs for locals has not made any country or province richer, Andhra Pradesh cannot be an exception

From the things Nirmala Sitharaman chose to make dearer and cheaper, and the continuity of incremental approach of Arun Jaitley to reforms, it is clear Narendra Modi has been the de facto finance minister all throughout. And his understanding of economics is questionable, notwithstanding his big dreams.

With this Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman needs to face the challenges of slowdown, bad debt, NBFC liquidity, employment, private investment, farm distress and public investment

The Uddhav Thackeray-led party said failure to create the promised 10 crore jobs in the last five years of the Modi rule cannot be blamed on former Congress prime ministers

However, 'It is a new design and a new matrix. It would be unfair to compare it with the past', Statistics secretary Pravin Srivastava said