<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Union Minister Arun Jaitley today said the government's fiscal deficit target would not be breached on account of higher MSP for 14 crops.</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />''</span>In a series of tweets, Mr Jaitley said, Government will be able to absorb the additional expenditure without breaching the fiscal deficit target as&nbsp; large provisioning for food subsidy has already been made in the Budget for current fiscal.He said, the government's&nbsp; initiative in raising the MSP of 14 agriculture crops&nbsp; &nbsp;will enrich and empower the farmer.Mr Jaitley also said, the revised MSP will go a long way to raise the quality of life in rural India.&nbsp;</div>
News On AIR | July 4, 2018 9:47 PM
Arun Jaitley says govt's fiscal deficit target would not be breached on account of higher MSP for 14 crops