Current Affairs 2nd Feburary 2018 (today’s current affairs). Below are the current affairs of 2nd Feburary of this year-
- The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) cannot have benches comprising of a single judge.
- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that India is expected to register a growth rate of 7.2-7.5% in the second half of the current fiscal.
- Arun Jaitely said that this year’s Budget will focus on strengthening agriculture and the rural economy.
- Finance minister said government will focus on strengthening rural, agriculture economy.
- The government is targeting to construct two crore new toilets in the next financial year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced during his budget speech.
- Arun Jaitley announced ₹56,619 crore for SC welfare and ₹39,135 crore for ST welfare.
- Arun Jaitley said that the government has allocated ₹14.3 lakh crore to be spent for rural infrastructure.
- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced ₹10,000 crore for the fisheries and aqua-culture and animal husbandry fund, during his Budget speech.
- While presenting the Union Budget 2018 in Parliament, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that eight crore poor women will be provided with free LPG connections under the Ujjwala scheme.
- Government will now contribute 12% of employee provident fund to the new employees in all sections for the next 3 years.
- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s delivered his fifth and last full Budget.
- Private sector Axis Bank launched the fourth edition of ‘Evolve’ in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
- Central Statistics Office revised the GDP growth rate for 2015-16 to 8.2% from the earlier estimates of 8% and kept the 2016-17 growth unchanged at 7.1%.
