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Budget 2019: Inflation down to average of 4.6%, claims FM
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal while presenting interim budget 2019 claimed, "Inflation is a hidden and unfair tax; from 10.1% during 2009-14, we have broken the back of back-breaking inflation. Inflation in December 2018 was just 2.1%. Fiscal deficit has been brought down to 3.4% in the revised estimate of 2018-19."
He also said, "From being 11th largest in the world in 2016, we are today the 6th largest. Our government has broken the back of back breaking inflation."
He also said, "From being 11th largest in the world in 2016, we are today the 6th largest. Our government has broken the back of back breaking inflation."
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