Ahead of the next month's Union Budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today interacted with economists and industry experts on current economic situation and took note of their suggestions.
In the interactive session organised by Niti Aayog on 'Economic Policy - The Road Ahead', over 40 economists and other experts participated.
"During the session, participants shared their views, in five distinct groups, on the economic themes of macro economy and employment, agriculture and water resources, exports, education and health," said a release issued by the Prime Minister's Office.
The Prime Minister thanked all participants for their suggestions and observations, on various aspects of the economy.
Lively, vibrant, constructive and extremely positive discussions with economists and experts on ‘Economic Policy: The Road Ahead' under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister @narendramodi at #NITIAayog today pic.twitter.com/2thoujEHaH
June 22, 2019Preparatory meeting of domain experts underway at #NITIAayog to discuss breakthrough ideas in Employment, Agricultural and Water Resources, Export, Education, and Health.
June 22, 2019
Opportunities and priorities on each sector shall be presented to PM @narendramodi in the evening. pic.twitter.com/cWb2lQbrFoThe meeting was also attended by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Statistics and Programme Implementation Rao Inderjeet Singh.
Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar and senior government officials were also present.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the full Budget for 2019-20 on July 5 in the Lok Sabha.
It will be first full Budget of the Modi 2.0 government.
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