‘Vibrant’ Budget will push infra spend and ensure economic revival: FM

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the upcoming Budget for 2021-22 will sustain the momentum of public spending on infrastructure and have a “vibrancy” to ensure the economic revival continues.

She also said the pace of disinvestment, which has been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, will pick up in the coming months.

“We shall definitely sustain the momentum of public spending in infrastructure. Because that is the one way we assure that the multipliers will work and the economy’s revival will be sustainable….

“I am conscious that the forthcoming Budget will have a vibrancy that is so required for the economy’s revival, sustainable revival,” she said at the Assocham Foundation Week.