PM MUDRA YOJANA, FUND OF FUNDS, START UP INDIA, AND START UP CREDIT GUARANTEE SCHEMES UNLOCKING ENTREPRENEURIAL ASPIRATIONS OF YOUTH: UNION FINANCE MINISTER
The Government stands committed to strengthening and expanding the economy with high growth and to create conditions for people to realise their aspirations. This was stated by Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the Interim Union Budget 2024, in Parliament, today.
AMRIT KAAL AS KARTAVYA KAAL
Calling it the beginning of Kartavya Kaal, Smt. Sitharaman quoted Prime Minister’s Independence Day address to the nation in the 75th year of India’s Republic, “We commit ourselves to national development, with new inspirations, new consciousness, new resolutions, as the country opens up immense possibilities and opportunities.”
UNLOCKING ENTREPRENEURIAL ASPIRATIONS OF YOUTH
The Union Finance Minister said that with sanctioning of 43 crore loans aggregating to Rs. 22.5 lakh crore under PM Mudra Yojana, entrepreneurial aspirations of our youth has been unlocked. Besides that, Fund of Funds, Start Up India, and Start Up Credit Guarantee schemes are assisting our youth and they are also becoming ‘rozgardata’.
