Finance Ministry seeks Twitterati vote on focus of Budget 2017-18

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..... Finance Ministry seeks Twitterati vote on focus of Budget 2017-18
News and Press Release
Dated:- 6-1-2017

New Delhi, Jan 6 (PTI) With less than a month remaining for budget presentation, .....

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..... Finance Ministry today invited suggestions from Twitterati on what should be the focus of the Budget for 2017-18 to be unveiled on February 1. People can exercise their voting option on the official .....

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..... twitter handle of the Ministry of Finance. "Please give your suggestions... Which sector (Infrastructure/Manufacturing/Agriculture/IT and Services) needs more focus in Budget 2017-18?" the .....

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..... Finance Ministry said in a tweet. Although voting would remain open for a week, initial pattern suggested netizen's preference for agriculture, followed closely by infrastructure. Manufacturing .....

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..... was the third in preference followed by IT and Services. In November 2016, the Finance Ministry had invited suggestions from public on myGov portal for Budget 2017-18 in order to encourage public par .....

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..... ticipation and bring in greater transparency. Government has decided to present the Budget for 2017-18 on February 1, instead of the usual practice of unveiling it on the last working day of February .....

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..... , so that all allocations are available before the start of financial year from April 1. It has also decided to merge the Rail Budget with the Union Budget.
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