Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the way that 44 unicorns have been made in India was an indication of “Amrit Kaal” which she had noticeably referenced in the current year’s Union Budget.

“These unicorns have made abundance and tell about India’s ability and advancement,” she said while answering to the discussion on the Budget in the Lok Sabha.

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Sitharaman said the Congress completed changes under impulse while expansion was in twofold digits during the UPA system. “There was without a doubt ‘andha kaal’ (dim age) in the nation, however it was during the Congress rule,” she said while bringing up that debasement, twofold digit expansion and strategy loss of motion were a pattern during the Congress rule.

Answering to assaults by the Opposition over joblessness and privatization, she said that 44.58 crore accounts under the Jan Dhan Yojana with Rs 1.57 lakh crore worth of stores were opened in the 2021-22 monetary.

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