Viksit Bharat: Centre to provide Rs 75,000 crore interest-free loan to states

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The Union government will provide Rs 75,000 crore as interest-free loan for 50 years to support reforms by states for realising the vision of 'Viksit Bharat'..

The government has set a vision to make India a developed nation by 2047.. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made the proposal in this regard in her Budget speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday...

Many growth and development enabling reforms are needed in states for realizing the vision of 'Viksit Bharat', she said...

"A provision of seventy-five thousand crore rupees as fifty-year interest-free loan is proposed this year to support those milestone-linked reforms by the state governments," the minister said...

According to the Budget documents, total resources being transferred to the states, including the devolution of states' share, grants/loans and releases under centrally sponsored schemes in 2024-25 (Budget Estimates), stand at Rs 22,22,264 crore...

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