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Union Budget 2019 expectations: FICCI seeks priority status to healthcare for easy access to fundingA lot of questions behind the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 1 were raised yesterday on Twitter with the hashtag #AskYourFM.
The hashtag started by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was trending on Twitter on Thursday morning as twitteratis took to the micro-blogging website to tweet clarifications regarding this year’s budget.
Your Queries on #AskYourFM for #Budget2017 are important to us.
FM Sh. @arunjaitley will answer your Queries LIVE on #Talkathon at 6.30PM pic.twitter.com/7x8GEtLZI9— MIB India (@MIB_India) February 1, 2017
Some of the questions were as follows.
What about falling interest rates in FD?? Where should we invest now our hard earned savings? #AskYourFM #Budget2017withSBI
— Swami Thikkananda (@thikkananda) February 1, 2017
#AskYourFM Rebates given to farm sector.. can we keep income based cap...for rebate..for eg a person owning 25 acre agri land shall not get
— Haresh (@haresh141176) February 1, 2017
#AskYourFM Any inputs/ guidelines for service tax exemption for some sectors
— Haresh (@haresh141176) February 1, 2017
#AskYourFM specify exact dates, which date onwards irctc stop surcharge on tickets,
— Gajendra (@YS_Gajendra) February 2, 2017
#AskYourFM plz find a better way to collect tax from business people and doctors. I as a doctor seen people not paying 20%of their real tax
— smadhu (@DrMadhukeshwari) February 2, 2017
#AskyourFM dear sir when we should get benefit of budget. Immediate or it ll take some months? Pls pls clarify my doubt.
— Charan raj (@Charanr28785228) February 2, 2017
#AskYourFM please I'm requesting u to ask any of ur education related minister or education officers or authorities to solve issue#ksou #UGC
— chandrashekar (@chandru_kannada) February 2, 2017
#askyourfm Cant income tax be abolished in total and adjusted against any service tax on goods , only 76 Lacs people actually pay the tax
— Kineo Dubenko (@DubenkoKineo) February 2, 2017
On Wednesday evening, Chetan Bhagat, Indian author, hosted a ‘Talkathon’ with FM Jaitley that was supposed to raise questions of the twitteratis.
Bhagat began the Talkathon with the question, “Ever made a home budget? Now try to spend (and earn) Rs 20 lakh crore.”
Live Talkathon
Tweet your Qns to @arunjaitley using #AskYourFM on #Budget2017 and get Ans live here https://t.co/Sq4XeaK0E9— MIB India (@MIB_India) February 1, 2017
The hashtag was even used in last year’s budget for solving queries by the Finance Ministry of India.
