Finance Minister Nirmala Recovering After Being Admitted To AIIMS Due To Viral Fever

The 63-year-old Union Finance Minister has been admitted to a private ward of the AIIMS hospital.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was reportedly taken to AIIMS, Delhi at around 12 noon today.

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Monday, with symptoms of viral fever. The 63-year-old has been admitted to a private ward of the hospital. She was taken to the hospital around noon, as per the news agency PTI.

Finance Ministry sources told ABP Live, that the union minister is recovering fine. 

Earlier, the news agency ANI reported that the Minister has been admitted for a routine check-up and is likely to be discharged soon.

Last week, Sitharaman addressed the Parliament about the issue of inflation saying that the government is keeping an eye on price rise, which, she said, currently is "extraneous" due to prices of fuel and fertiliser.

Responding to a discussion on Supplementary Demands for Grants in the Rajya Sabha, she said that wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation has slid to a 21-month low, news agency IANS reported.

It was informed that Retail inflation also fell to a 10-month low of 5.88 per cent in November 2022, after remaining beyond the RBI's upper tolerance level of 6 per cent.

Sitharaman further said that due to various PLI schemes initiated by the Centre, private investment Capex is rising in the country.

She further said that the supplementary demand for grants is essential for food security, fertiliser requirements, and for providing support to the economy.

Sitharaman also informed the upper House that the gross NPAs of banks fell to a six-year low of 5.9 per cent in March 2022.

She said the government's strategy to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic helped in reviving economic growth, thus avoiding recessionary trends.

(With Agency Inputs)