India to be driven more and more by digitisation of banking and related services, says FM Sitharaman

September 20, 2022 8:03 PM

India to be driven more and more by digitisation of banking and related services, says FM Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the future of finance in India is going to be driven more and more by the digitization of banking and related services. She said, the digitization has helped bring greater ease of financial services in terms of banks, financial institutions and customer and it will be further strengthened in the next 25 years. Ms. Sitharaman said this while addressing the 3rd Edition of KEADS Programme on theme- Future of Finance organised by FICCI in New Delhi. ...

CPSEs have very important role in giving push to growth of economy: FM Sitharaman

July 8, 2020 7:26 AM

CPSEs have very important role in giving push to growth of economy: FM Sitharaman

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held review meeting with CMDs of 23 Central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) yesterday to boost expenditure in the economy. Secretaries of Ministries of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Power, Coal, Mines and Atomic Energy also attended the meeting. In 2019-20, the capital expenditure (CAPEX) by the 23 CPSEs stood at one lakh 66 thousand 29 crore against the target of one lakh 64 thousand 822 crore rupees, which is 101 per cent.   Mrs Sitharaman said, CPSEs h...