April 27
Bengaluru
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman appealed to the people of Bengaluru to give Karnataka a stable government with good majority. “BJP is a party which has shown that India can lift its head up,” the Finance Minister said. “Whether it was the corona or a post-war global economy, India’s economy has not been let down. The chance of India facing recession is close to zero,” she added.
She has been speaking at several events in Bengaluru during the week, joining the local leaders and candidates of the upcoming Karnataka legislative assembly election in campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
On Thursday, she took part in multiple interactions and stage events in the city. The Finance Minister shared the stage with the BJP’s candidate for the Byatarayanapura Assembly Constituency in northern Bengaluru. In the event organised by the candidate H C Thammesh Gowda at Bhartiya City near Jakkur, she said that India is far more competent than many other countries in terms of software services.
Speaking about digital advantage and financial inclusion in India, she said, “During the pandemic, when western developed economies were writing cheques and posting it by postal services, we had only to do pressing of a button so that money goes into the accounts of all the people in different parts of the country”.
At Sobha city, she took questions from the audience on budget “This century is a knowledge century. Today, any job in the entire value chain will have to be knowledge and technology drive,” she said, adding that recognition exists for Bengaluru as a knowledge and technology hub. Centres of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence have been announced to facilitate research in the AI field to develop tools that can promote other sectors as well, she said.
On initiatives to protect green space, she said that India has been moving ‘really fast’. She said that India has been fulfilling the COP21 ‘nationally-determined commitments’ on its own irrespective of funding from any global agencies. “They were talking about a 100 billion per year, but that money has not come at all. We have been doing our bit in terms of fulfilling our commitments,” she said.
The Finance Minister said that ecosystems like wetlands and coastal mangroves are being identified and conserved.
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