Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw reacts to Nirmala Sitharaman's interim Budget: 'Growth focused'

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw listed bio manufacturing & research financing to boost innovation & green technologies as positives in Nirmala Sitharam's interim Budget.

Biocon founder Kiran Mazundar-Shaw reacted to the interim Budget, presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday, calling it "all encompassing growth focused" and inclusive of economic development.

"No Tax Change, "Viksit Bharat" Mantra In Last Budget Before Polls - An all encompassing growth focused interim budget which augments inclusive economic development. Bio manufacturing & research financing to boost innovation & green technologies is positive," Mazumdar-Shaw wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday.

No Tax Change, "Viksit Bharat" Mantra In Last Budget Before Polls - An all encompassing growth focused interim budget which augments inclusive economic development. Bio manufacturing & research financing to boost innovation & green technologies is positive https://t.co/CSamqf6bf5

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— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (@kiranshaw) February 1, 2024

#Budget2024: In the Interim #Budget, Finance Minister @nsitharaman has outlined a comprehensive roadmap for sustained #EconomicGrowth that will enable #India to achieve developed economy status by 2047. Her emphasis on #research & #innovation, biomanufacturing, robust…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (@kiranshaw) February 1, 2024

Sitharaman became the first woman to hold the finance ministry on a full-time basis and she is also only the second finance minister, after Moraji Desai, to present six consecutive budgets.

Sitharaman also became the first woman finance minister to present the Budget in 2019, when she delivered one of the longest speeches which lasted two hours and 17 minutes.

Also read: Interim Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman delivers one of the shortest budget speeches