The finance ministry has placed restrictions on the entry of reporters into North Block, days after the pre-Budget quarantine period for two months got over. Only accredited journalists with prior appointment with a ministry official are allowed access in the ministry.
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15 more officials, all of whom have corruption allegations against them, were made to retire compulsorily by the centre as part of its renewed tough stance on criminal misconduct.
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Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, will not present the Narendra Modi government’s last Budget on February 1, as he left for the United States for a medical check-up. Piyush Goyal, railway and coal minister, has been given temporary charge of the finance ministry.
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MGNREGA – the rural job guarantee scheme, which ensures paid unskilled work for up to 100 days in a year, has reportedly run out of funds two-and-half months before the end of the financial year.
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