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NEW DELHI, FEB 1 (PTI): The government will encourage external commercial borrowings and FDI in the education sector for financing infrastructure, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Saturday.

Setting up a National Police University and a National Forensic Science University, linking medical colleges to a district hospital through the public-privatepartnership (PPP) mode to meet the shortage of qualified doctors, degree-level full-fledged online education programmes in top 100 institutions and holding the Ind-SAT exam in Asian and African countries for benchmarking foreign students interested in studying in India are some of the proposals made in the budget presented by Sitharaman on Saturday.

Presenting the budget for 2020-21, the finance minister said an amount of Rs 99,300 crore was allocated for the education sector and another amount of Rs 3,000 crore for skill development.

“It is felt that our education system needs a greater inflow of finance to attract talented teachers, innovate and build better labs. Therefore, steps would be taken to enable sourcing of external commercial borrowings and foreign direct investment so as to be able to deliver higher-quality education,” she said in the budget speech.

“A National Police University and a National Forensic Science University are being proposed in the domain of policing science, forensic science, cyber-forensics etc,” Sitharaman said. She added that the new national education policy will be announced soon.

“By 2030, India is set to have the largest working-age population in the world. Not only do they need literacy, but they need both jobs and life skills. Dialogues have been held with state education ministries, MPs and other stakeholders about the education policy. Over two lakh suggestions were received. The new education policy will be announced soon,” the finance minister said.

In order to boost employability of general stream students, about 150 higher educational institutions will start apprenticeship-embedded degrees or diploma courses by March 2021.

Similarly, for the students of technology streams, the government has proposed to start a programme whereby urban local bodies across the country would provide internship opportunities to fresh engineers for a period of up to one year.

“In order to provide quality education to the students of the deprived section of the society as well as those who do not have access to higher education, it is proposed to start a degree-level, full-fledged online education programme. This shall be offered only by institutions who are ranked within top 100 in the National Institutional Ranking framework. Initially, only a few such institutions would be asked to offer such programmes,” Sitharaman said.

With an aim to boost the “Study in India” programme, the government has proposed to hold IndSAT in Asian and African countries. Nirmala Sitharaman flanked by Anurag Thakur (R) and a team of officials, shows a folder containing the Union Budget documents on her arrival at Parliament in New Delhi, Saturday. (PTI)

Budget to provide unprecedented relief to taxpayers: Shah

NEW DELHI, FEB 1 (PTI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Union Budget 2020-21 will contribute significantly in fulfilling the Modi government’s resolve to double the income of farmers and provide unprecedented relief to the taxpayers.

In a series of tweets, Shah also said world-class highways, railways, ports, airports, metros will be built in the country with the allocation of Rs 100 lakh crore. “In this budget, the Modi government has taken effective steps to rationalise the tax system, boost the basic infrastructure, strengthen the banking system, promote investment and ease of doing business, which will further the Modi government’s resolve to make India a five trillion-dollar economy,” he said.

Shah said the budget will contribute significantly in fulfilling the Modi government’s resolve to double the income of farmers by making provision for irrigation and grain storage to the farmers of the country, as well as a fair price for their produce. The home minister said the Modi government, through this budget, has provided a major and unprecedented relief in income tax to the taxpayers of every category, particularly the middle class, salaried tax

100 more airports to be developed by 2025: FM NEW DELHI, FEB 1 (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said 100 more airports will be developed by 2025 to support the UDAN scheme.

Presenting the Budget for 2020-21, Sitharaman said Rs 1.7 lakh crore has been provided for transport infrastructure in 2020-21.

She also said 1,150 trains will run under the public private partnership (PPP) mode, also four stations will be redeveloped with the help of the private sector.

Besides, the minister promised more Tejas type trains to connect tourist destinations. She said a proposal for setting up large solar power capacity alongside rail track is under consideration. payers will not only have to reduce tax but will also get relief from simplification of tax system.

“I congratulate the prime minister and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for presenting a budget, which will benefit farmers, poor, salaried middle class and business class,” he said. Shah said in keeping with the pledge of a healthy India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched new hospitals by the publicprivate partnership (PPP) model to bring ‘Ayushman Bharat’ scheme to every nook and corner of the country, especially in the Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities and in 112 aspirational districts, where there is no hospital under the scheme.

The home minister said with the allocation of Rs 100 lakh crore for basic infrastructure in the country, world-class highways, railways, ports, airports, metros will be built in the country, which will not only improve the lives of common people but also give a significant boost to economic activities.

“Taking forward the campaigns like home, electricity, toilets, gas and health facilities to all, I welcome Modi ji’s resolve to provide clean drinking water to everyone. The allocation of Rs 3.60 lakh crore in this scheme shows the commitment of Modi ji, which will improve the life and health of common people,” he said. Shah said through ‘Kisan Rail’ and ‘Kisan Udaan Yojana’, the farmers will join the national and international markets and their products could be sold at a better price at the right time without damage. This scheme will especially benefit fruit and vegetable growers, particularly our tribal and northeast farmers.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 1 (PTI): Slamming the Union budget as “insipid” and lacking in stimulus for growth, the Congress on Saturday said it does not address the main issue of unemployment and describes the mindset of the government which is “all talk and nothing happening”.

The opposition party said the budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman comprises piecemeal measures, repackaged schemes, jugglery of tax slabs, and has no real solutions to solve the economic crisis.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said there was no strategic idea or anything concrete in the Union Budget and it described the “hollow” approach of the government that was “all talk”.

Talking to reporters outside Parliament soon after the presentation of the budget, he said it does not address the main issue of unemployment confronting the youth of the country.

“I did not see any concrete, strategic idea that could help our youngsters get jobs. There were redundant things in the budget and I did not see any central idea,” he said.

“It describes the government quite well. There is a lot of repetition, a lot of rambling and nothing concrete. It describes the mindset of the government, all talk, all talk, all talk, and nothing happening,” he said.

Senior party leader Ahmed Patel said that at a time when India is in the midst of an economic downturn, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget speech focuses more on praising the prime minister rather than helping the common citizen.

“ L o n g e s t B u d g e t speech is also the most lacklustre budget ever. After Acche Din, New India, it now appears that the government has also abandoned the target of USD 5 trillion economy,” Patel said in a series of tweets.

This budget confirms not only the bankruptcy of the economy but also a bankruptcy of government’s ideas, he claimed.

“Piecemeal measures, repackaged schemes, jugglery of tax slabs and no real solutions to solve the present economic crisis,” Patel said referring to the budget.

“After squeezing out LIC of profitability, the government now wants to sell it to rescue itself,” he claimed.

Patel also said that after “harassing” taxpayers for last six years, the government seems to have realised its disastrous impact on the economy.

“We hope this will not be mere lip service but will be implemented in letter and spirit,” he said.

Congress leader and senior spokesperson Anand Sharma said that “budget is insipid, lacking in stimulus for growth” and has no clear roadmap for job creation.

Party’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also slammed the budget and posed questions to Sitharaman on Twitter.

He alleged that the government’s five trillion economy assertion had turned out to be a ‘jumla’ and there was no mention of the word employment in the budget. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (front) and Rahul Gandhi (L-behind) during presentation of the Union Budget. (PTI) NOIDA (UP), FEB 1 (PTI): A 42-year-old worker died allegedly after an ammonia gas leak at a Haldiram’s building in the city, while more than 300 others were evacuated from there on Saturday, officials said.

The leakage was reported around 12 pm, prompting immediate deployment of police force, firefighters and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), they said. There are two adjoining units of Haldiram’s in the building, one was the production unit and the other was its cooling or the maintenance unit, an NDRF official said.

“The gas leak had occurred through the valve of one of the 4 ammonia condensers in the maintenance unit where around 22 people were working and evacuated. One of them was taken to a hospital, where he died later,” NDRF Asst Comdt Anil Kumar Singh told PTI. The man who died has been identified as ammonia operator Sanjeev Kumar, he said. More than 300 other workers were in the production unit and they were also evacuated immediately and the building marked isolated for the time being, he said.

A team of 47 NDRF personnel was at the spot and the situation was brought under control by 3 pm, as firefighters and Noida Police officials, including sr officers were deployed at the site.