{"id":3925,"date":"2015-02-28T23:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T23:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2015-02-28T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T23:10:22","slug":"india-budget-to-boost-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/india-budget-to-boost-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"India budget to boost investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indian PM Narendra Modi\u2019s government has unveiled a business-friendly budget aimed at attracting greater investment for the economy.<br \/>\nFinance Minister Arun Jaitley announced an unprecedented corporate tax cut, in the government\u2019s first full budget.<br \/>\nBut he also proposed major benefits for the poor, introducing a universal social security scheme.<br \/>\nIndia will grow at a rate of more than 8% during 2015-16, a key economic report said ahead of the budget.<br \/>\nThe growth forecast follows the country\u2019s new way of calculating GDP which has caused some confusion.<br \/>\nPresenting the budget in parliament Mr Jaitley said the country was growing at a strong rate, inflation was down and foreign exchange reserves were high.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/india-budget-to-boost-investment\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian PM Narendra Modi\u2019s government has unveiled a business-friendly budget aimed at attracting greater investment for the economy. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced an unprecedented corporate tax cut, in the government\u2019s first full budget. But he also proposed major benefits for the poor, introducing a universal social security scheme. India will grow at a rate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}