New Delhi: When it comes to the spoken words, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday laid much emphasis on farmers, agriculture, growth, investment and infrastructure in his Budget speech, literally.
‘Investment’ was among the most-spoken keywords with as many as 37 mentions, although down from 60 in his last year's Budget speech. Growth was also referred to 20 times, down from 27 last year, while farmers and agriculture found 32 and 24 mentions, respectively.
Mr Jaitley's predecessor P/ Chidambaram had used ‘growth’ 32 times during his interim Budget speech in February 2014, but the word 'investment' was spoken only 11 times by him. Besides, Jaitley also talked about rural areas or economy as many as 25 times.
Terming ‘ease of doing business’ one of the key pillars of the Budget proposals, Jaitley used this phrase as many as six times — albeit again down from 10 last year.
He used the word ‘crisis’ just once, but referred to ‘opportunities’ as many as 12 times as he talked about the Centre’s commitment to covert the global crisis into an opportunity for the Indian economy. The ‘common man’, found just one mention, while 'black money' was used twice.
