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Mixed bag budget with no big idea: Manmohan Singh on Union Budget

| | Feb 29, 2016, at 08:29 pm
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS) Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh and senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh on Monday called the Union Budget presented by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as "mixed bag Budget" with no big idea.

He said the announcement made by the Centre to double farmer's income in the next couple of years is an "impossible idea" .

"There is no way of telling the country how it will be achieved," Singh told NDTV.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday presented the Union Budget 2016 focusing on rural development and farm and social sector while offering some relief to tax payers as analysts see it as a pro-poor budget with big ideas which is a challenge for the government to implement.

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