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Piyush Goyal
Who is Piyush Goyal
Who is Piyush Goyal Piyush Goyal, who had been the Union minister for railways and coal in the first term of the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre, has been given charge of the railways and commerce & industry ministries in the second term. In the previous term of the BJP government, Goyal had also donned the hat of the finance minister on a couple of occasions, standing in for then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during phases of the latter’s ailment. Goyal was the finance minister and corporate affairs minister from January 23 to February 15, 2019). He presented the Interim Budget for 2019-20. Among the most crucial things he announced in the Interim Budget was a tax concession to the lowest bracket of the salaried class. He also announced a scheme for income transfer to farmers. ...Read More