New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Friday approved the second batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants, which will enable the government to spend an additional Rs 2.01 lakh crore in the current financial year.The government had sought approval to spend a gross additional amount of Rs 2.81 lakh crore. However, with estimated additional receipts of Rs 80,000 crore during the current fiscal year, the net additional cash spending stands at Rs 2.01 lakh crore.In her reply to the debate in t…
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New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Centre will launch a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)-based food subsidy distribution pilot project under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) in the Union Territory of Puducherry on Thursday in a major step towards strengthening India’s digital public infrastructure and enhancing transparency in subsidy delivery, according to an official statement.The digital rupee or e-rupee is a tokenised digital version of the Indian rupee, issued by the Res…